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It occurred to me that there must be a large quantity of software that developers may need, that have already been written. In the case of Windows, these would include dll's (dynamic link libraries).

I was wondering if anyone had encountered or compiled a list of helpful dll's?

Thanks!

That would be a really huge list I suspect, just those for the Windows OS(s) is a pretty long list.

Here is a list, has a description for each DLL: http://errordecoder.com/dll-files/

Perhaps this one is more useful: http://xpdll.nirsoft.net/

Another: http://www.dll-files.com/dllindex/index-a.shtml

Of course what you really need is a categorisation of purpose, so you could search by requirement rather than DLL name.

You're right Ideas, it was a poorly worded request. I just wasn't sure if there might be a site somewhere that had compiled a list of useful dll's.

It would have been great if Microsoft had made it so that dll's were self documenting, so that it was easy to determine the variable types and number of variables passed to each function.

Nir Sofer from nirsoft.com is great!

Are you looking for this?
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library ... 85%29.aspx

Regards, Little John

I think RichAlgeni is saying it'd be nice if the necessary documentation for using a dll was contained within the dll. Not for the microsoft APIs, but for other DLLs on the Windows platform.

That's exactly what I was thinking Void!

Nirsoft.com's dll export process is great at showing you exported functions, but it's unable to determine the number of variables and their type that need to be passed to the function. There is probably a lot of code that is duplicated because of this.