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I am just starting MS Visual Studio 2005. My laptop has a 64 bit Intel microprocessor and the OS installed is 64 bit Windows 7. I created a DLL in VC++ 2005 using a Export Definitions File (.def) and then created an application on VB to test it.

The entire procedure was completed as instructed by my teacher and every thing was fine until I tried to run the application. The error returned was a BadImageFormat Exception (0x8007000B) and I have completely no idea what went wrong.

I have read the posts in these forums and I think it might be that VC++ 2005 creates a 32 bit (x86) version of DLL. Also I tried changing the format so that it produces a 64 bit (x64) version of DLL but it returned a different error on compilation. The machine module and the target module were incompatible.

Please help. I'm running out of time on this project.

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Yes, it is true that the compiler produces 32-bit code, but that should not have been the problem. I also have 64-bit Windows 7 and never have a problem using 32-bit DLLs.

What version of VB are you tring to use?

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What version of VB are you tring to use?

I'm using the Visual Studio 2005 developer itself. I've also tried using Visual Basic 6 under Visual Studio 98 but it hangs in the middle due to an incompatibility problem.

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Visual Studio 98??? That is almost as ancient as I am. Upgrade your version of VB to a more recent one. Start out with the free VB 2010 Express to see if that resolves your problem or not.

commented: I didn't know you were a teenager! Are you old enough to be here? :o) +16
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