In this article I will describe how to use Dynamic Link Libraries (DLL) in your own projects. I will show an example of how to define a DLL that is statically linked at compile-time to support implicit loading of the DLL at runtime. I will also show how to to use explicit DLL loading to allow your project to support plug-ins that can be dynamically loaded into your main executable at run-time. For this example, I will use Microsoft’s Visual Studio 2008 as the programming IDE.

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