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   Jason Keats to Robert S. Liles   
   Re: Mixed language programming in VB.NET   
   12 Mar 05 12:27:34   
   
   From: jkeats@melbpcDeleteThis.org.au   
      
   Robert S. Liles wrote:   
   > I have recently migrated from Microsoft Professional Development   
   > System Version 7.1 (I know I am in the stone age >G<) to Microsoft   
   > Visual Basic.NET.  I am used to writing time critical or very   
   > repetitive routines in Assembly language and linking them into my   
   > Basic PDS programs to greatly enhance execution speed.  I can find no   
   > information on doing this in VB.NET. Can someone point me to a   
   > resource that will tell me how to pass arguments to an assembly   
   > routine?  I know how to create system .DLL files from assembly so I   
   > assume I can call them from VB, but I don't know how to pass the   
   > data, especially strings.   
   >   
   > TIA, Bobbo   
      
   I believe you should search for help on PInvoke.   
      
   However, as this group is for "classic" Visual Basic (ie VB6 and earlier),   
   you should be asking your questions in a dotnet group, eg:   
      
   microsoft.public.dotnet.general   
   microsoft.public.dotnet.languages.vb   
      
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