1. Social Media And Global Computing Creating DLLs with Visual Studio

2. Creating Stand-alone Components
Classes can be compiled and stored as a dynamic link library (DLL) instead of into the EXE file type
Create a Class Library application
The name of the DLL will be the same as the Namespace, and in addition you create a class and one or more methods in the DLL.
Use Build instead of Run to create the DLL file. It will be located inside the Debug folder inside the Bin folder inside your Application’s folder.

3. Creating Stand-alone Components

4. Creating Stand-alone Components

5. Creating Stand-alone Components

6. Creating Stand-alone Components

7. Right-Click on References
Add a Reference to a DLL
Right-Click on References
Then select
Add Reference

8. Use Browse Tab to locate DLL
Add a Reference to a DLL
Use Browse Tab to locate DLL

9. It is listed in your References
Add a Reference to a DLL
Select Your DLL
Then
It is listed in your References

10. Using a DLL in your Application
DLL components can be reused with many different applications
Two Steps
Add a reference to the DLL components
Include a ‘using’ statement with the namespace
Then declare an objects of the component type(s)
Use members of the referenced classes in the Library.
For Example:
using NameOfDLL;
. . .
NameOfClass myObj = new NameOfClass();
string dblString = myObj.NameOfMethod ( someValue );