This post explains how to open DLL Files in Windows 11. DLL files tend to run in the background most of the time. They are hidden deep inside program-specific folders and do not require opening under ...

Don't ask why my client needed me to do this (it would be embarrassing), but we needed to find the differences between two DLLs that represented different versions of the same class library. Microsoft ...

You probably need to declare area() as PASCAL calling convention and with the EXPORT macro so that it is, indeed, exported from your DLL. You'll also have to defeat C++ "name-mangling", so define it ...