C++ DLL question | GameDev.net

benhus · 2002-06-05T04:19:07+00:00

Hello, I''ve a question. I know VB is not the best language to make games with. But what about writing DLL''s in C++ to do the heavy stuff and then glue the game together in VB using these in c++ written dll''s? Would that increase the performance of the VB game?

Yes, linking to C++ DLLs from inside VB works to overcome most VB limitations in performance as well as low-level access. I tried it out myself. Plan your app very carefully though, since you will most likely have difficuilty in sharing/passing data between VB and the C++ DLL. I had to give up the idea because of this and I''m writing my project completely in C++ now, but if your app is well structured and you don''t have to pass huge amounts of data around, you should be successfull.

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