What language are dlls.

[tsm]

Hi I'm curious what language dll's are. And which Ide's i can view the code with. Just wondering. Thanks.

[Enderman]

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3921541/programming-language-for-creating-dll-c-or-c-sharp

a dll is not a language that you can code in, it is a compiled file that you write using another language like C or C++ or whatever

[ForsakenLive]

They are basically data files that the program access to do stuff. Not something that has code or anything.

[fizzlesticks]

They are basically data files that the program access to do stuff. Not something that has code or anything.

wuuut?

[ForsakenLive]

wuuut?

It's simply an extension file. It does have differences with a classic binary, but there isn't really much else to see, he won't be seeing code on them any time soon.

[fizzlesticks]

It's simply an extension file. It does have differences with a classic binary, but there isn't really much else to see, he won't be seeing code on them any time soon.

Just because he can't read it doesn't mean it isn't code or that it's a "data file". And the readability will depend on what language it was made with, a C# dll is completely decompilable. 

[ForsakenLive]

Just because he can't read it doesn't mean it isn't code or that it's a "data file". And the readability will depend on what language it was made with, a C# dll is completely decompilable. 

That's true, it can be code in it in certain cases. It helps more when you give good examples and help the OP instead of putting 'wuut'.

[DevBlox]

Dll's are actually only code, with function or object endpoints externalized, so they could be accessed by a program (.exe) and treated as a black box (you give it data and those functions process it and give it back to you, you don't care about the internals, a perfect way to hide functionality, because if you don't have the original source, it's uber hard to read anything in it). They can be written in almost any language, they are called shared libraries by the way.

[SSL]

It stands for "Dynamicaly Linked Library". This means that the code contained in the dll may be loaded into memory once and shared by many applications simultaneously. It is analogous to "shared libraries" under Unix.

 

They are basically data files that the program access to do stuff. Not something that has code or anything.

 

Where did you learn this? I wish I was as smart as you.

[ItsMTC]

To answer the question of what language they are in, dll's are compiled and thus don't have a readable language in their unaltered state. Decompiling a dll would allow you to understand the programming behind the actual dll, however it cannot give you an editable ide environment (that being said, .NET applications can be decompiled and edited with a tad bit of deobfusticating).

 

To my knowledge, you can make dll's in any language that also supports executable code, so C++, C, C#, etc.