QuickView check of exported DLL symbols

[durisinm]

The CVF help documentation contains a short entry titled "Checking the DLL Symbol Export Table." It states, "To make sure that everything that you want to be visible shows up in the export table, look at the export information of an existing DLL file by using QuickView in the Windows Explorer File menu or the following DUMPBIN command: DUMPBIN /exports file.dll"

I already knew about the DUMPBIN command, but this was the first I had heard about QuickView (other Windows documentation uses Quick View). I discovered that I had QuickView on my Windows 98 system, but not my Windows 2000 system. When I used QuickView to examine a CVF DLL under Windows 98 it didn't list its exported symbols, but DUMPBIN did. QuickView did say that the DLL contained a value for an export table offset and a certain size for an export directory.

Is this a documentation error, or does QuickView have a bug?

Mike Durisin

[Steven_L_Intel1]

QuickView looks somewhere else to find the exported symbols - I am not sure what the difference is. What works better, and is provided with CVF, is the Dependency Walker. Just open DW and drag your DLL onto it, or open the DLL the old fashioned way :-) You get a lot of useful information.

Steve