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Accessing DLLs through VBA


To call a function in a third-party DLL, you need to use the Declare statement. For example:

Private Declare Function GetTempPath Lib "kernel32" _     Alias "GetTempPathA" (ByVal nBufferLength As Long, _     ByVal lpBuffer As String) As Long

See How to: Access DLLs in Excel on MSDN for more information.


To list the functions that are available, take a look at the Dependency Walker tool, which will list the exported functions from DLLs (and lots of other information).