[Ascendancy]

I have another question. What language are .dll files written in?

 

[V0lt]

They can be written in several different languages.

Wikipedia has an article about them at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_Link_Library

 

[Ascendancy]

Which would you suggest the best? I was thinking of using C or C++?

EDIT:
And thanks for the article.

 

[V0lt]

I have no experience with writing DLLs, but there's a nifty site here with a general overview of how to write them. From the site, it seems like C/C++ are the most flexible to write it in.

 

[VincentWong]

The language you use to create your dlls depends on what your application requirements are. C and C++ are fairly low level languages are used in applications such as hardware software (drivers) and performance intensive applications. On the other hand C# and VB.NET are used for most Microsoft-based business applications.

To determine what language you should use, you should first understand your applications requirements and go from there.

 

[MattBro]

DLL's are not written in any specific language. They contain machine code organized into the common programming "routine" concept, along with a table ("export"/"import"-table) used to map these routines to an application's address space.

Any language can be used to write a DLL, so-long as it's supported. But, by far the most appropiate language to develop them in is C/C++ or Assembly. Or any low-level language.

All current (kernel) DLL's under Window's are written in C (Not C++). Additionally, they are all of the __stdcall calling convention (Parameters are pushed onto the stack left-to-right).


-Matt