DLLs

Pinhead · 3 Aug 2006 at 11:33

Hey all,
Been programming for ages now, and every now and then i end up using a function from a DLL, such as this:

Code:

<System.Runtime.InteropServices.DllImport("coredll.dll")> _
Private Shared Function CeRunAppAtEvent(ByVal AppName As String, ByVal WhichEvent As Integer) As Boolean

ive often wondered what else is contained in the most common DLLs like core.
Is there anywhere i can go that will give me such a list?

The results i get back from google are just thos 'fix dll errors in minutes' adverts lol

growse · 3 Aug 2006 at 15:55

What's exposed in things like win32.dll and core.dll is basically the windows API. MSDN has lots to say about it, but I don't think there's a complete list anywhere...

~J~ · 3 Aug 2006 at 19:25

Not 100% guaranteed for all of Windows DLL's, but you can decompile a lot of commercial DLL's with Lutz Reflector.

http://www.aisto.com/roeder/dotnet/

Plus, it's a damn handy piece of kit for any Windows developer.

purejamie · 11 Aug 2006 at 16:55

~J~ said:
Not 100% guaranteed for all of Windows DLL's, but you can decompile a lot of commercial DLL's with Lutz Reflector.

http://www.aisto.com/roeder/dotnet/

Plus, it's a damn handy piece of kit for any Windows developer.

That's a great tool.. Cheers.

Una · 11 Aug 2006 at 18:15

Windows DLL files are a brand of PE file with a few differences:
A DLLMain() entry point, instead of a WinMain() or main().
The DLL flag set in the PE header.

You could reverse engineer them using IDA/GDB or similar if you want more informaton. However m$ provides a tool called dumpbin which provides more info on them.

If you wish to learn more about PE file formats I can provide a few links. Which explain them better than I could.

NathanE · 11 Aug 2006 at 18:38

I prefer to use http://www.dependencywalker.com/