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Dynamic Link Library Topics

What is DLL and what are their usages and advantages?

What are the sections in a DLL executable/binary?

Explain the working mechanism of a DLL?

Where should we store DLLs ?

Who loads and links the DLLs?

What is dependency chain when using DLL?

How many types of linking are there?

What is the entry point function of a DLL?

What is implicit and explicit linking in dynamic loading?

How functions are imported and exported in a module?

How can I export a function from a module?

What is the utility of the keyword: __declspec(dllimport), __declspec(dllexport)?

How can I export a function without __declspec(dllexport) keyword?

Why the keyword extern C is used for codes when used with a C++ compiler?

What is name mangling in C++ function?

How a whole class can be exported?

How to call a function of a DLL? Implicit and Explicit call

When ever we execute an EXE, one application instance is created for each execution. Is it true for DLL also? How many instance of a DLL is created if a DLL is loaded from 5 different applications? Explain.

How a DLL comes to know that it has been loaded by one application as well as unloaded by it?

How Win32 sub-system informs the DLL when the application creates a thread?

What are AFX Extension class and Extension DLLs?

How classes are exported in MFC DLL?

For imports we use dllimport and for export we use dllexport keyword. MFC uses only one keyword AFX_EXT_CLASS, how can that be possible?

How we use dynamic linking in Linux? Give example.

What is resource DLL? When and how we can use it?

How to call a DLL function from Visual Besic?

How to call a DLL function from java? (Calling C/C++ native function from Java)

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