Accessing dynamically loaded DLL (with LoadLibrary) in Visual Basic 6

Question

I have a need to create a wrapper for a DLL, loading and unloading it as needed (for those interested in the background of this question, see How to work around memory-leaki

Answer 1

Do you need to call COM methods on this DLL? If so, I'm not at all sure this is possible.

• Matthew Curland's excellent Advanced Visual Basic 6 is the first place I'd look, though. There's some powerful under-the-hood COM stuff in there that circumvents the normal VB6 techniques.

• There's also DirectCom, which allows you to call COM methods without using COM. Never used it myself, but people chat about it on the VB6 newsgroup.