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Im using Visual Basic and I get “bad calling convention” when using any API – what is wrong?

April 26, 2017API visual basic wrong

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Im using Visual Basic and I get “bad calling convention” when using any API – what is wrong?

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The default DLL supplied uses the “C” calling convention which does not work with Visual Basic. For Visual Basic you need to use the “stdcall” version of the DLL, you can simply delete (or rename) the default DLL and then rename the “stdcall” one.