Summary

DLLs are an essential part of creating Windows applications while focusing in on code reusability. This chapter covered the reasons for creating or using DLLs. The chapter illustrated how to create and use DLLs in your Delphi applications and showed different methods of loading DLLs. The chapter discussed some of the special considerations you must take when using DLLs with Delphi and showed you how to make DLL data sharable with different applications.

With this knowledge under your belt, you should be able to create DLLs with Delphi and use them in your Delphi applications with ease.

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