Using microsoft internet backgammon DLL

are we enable to use 开发者_Go百科Microsoft backgammon dll in our application? http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa939626%28WinEmbedded.5%29.aspx for example Bckg.dll is game logix. can we use it in out application?

Bckg.dll is not a COM component, it doesn't have a type library. All you can eke out of it is the names of the exported functions. Dumpbin.exe /exports shows this:

      1    0 000031BD ZoneClientExit
      2    1 00003242 ZoneClientGameAddKibitzer
      3    2 00003236 ZoneClientGameDelete
      4    3 000031DC ZoneClientGameNew
      5    4 00003274 ZoneClientGameProcessMessage
      6    5 0000325C ZoneClientGameRemoveKibitzer
      7    6 000031CD ZoneClientInternalName
      8    7 0000317E ZoneClientMain
      9    8 0000D0DD ZoneClientMessageHandler
     10    9 000031C2 ZoneClientName
     11    A 000031D6 ZoneClientVersion
     12    B 00003163 ZoneGameDllDelete
     13    C 0000310A ZoneGameDllInit

RemoveKibitzer sounds very interesting. Anyhoo, you can't reverse-engineer the arguments of these functions from the dump. MessageHandler and ProcessMessage would typically be your ultimate nemesis with just no way to figure out exactly what kind of messages are processed and handled. This is a no-go.

Public service message for anyone interested in running the superior XP version on Vista or Win7: after copying the c:\program files\msn gaming zone\windows folder, run zClientm /regserver at the command prompt to get it installed.

Generally Microsoft isn't in the habit of providing an API and documentation in MSDN for products they don't want you to be able to use.