MFC in Visual Basic?

[killRoy]

Hello, peoples.

I'm interested in accessing FTP through Visual Basic. One of my illustrious co-workers showed me a little program he wrote to perform FTP transfer using MFC in C++. It uses the CFtpConnection class. I said, "Well, that looks easy. Is there any way to do that in Visual Basic?"

And he says, "Oh yeah, you just declare it as a class with VB after it."

Now I wasn't going to totally believe that part of it, but I didn't know if accessing MFC classes in VB was possible, so I did some searches and found nothing so far.

Is there indeed a way to access the innards of an MFC class within Visual Basic?

Thank you for any help. And sorry if I sound green. I know I can access the win32 functions, but I'm not privy to the accessibility of MFC in VB.

-killRoy

[LHernandez]

In Delphi there is a very cool FTP component BUT VB doesn't have one. It should have one.

One solution is the following:

Create a dll in VC++ to be able to access an instance of that class. Add the functions you need to get the desired functionality. Be careful with the string handling in C++.

From VB you can access this dll.

[killRoy]

Ew, not exactly a straight forward way of doing it. And not as straight-forward as was suggested to me.

Ok, thanks for the information!

[David Keith]

Basically speaking KillRoy your talking about oil (VB) and water (C/C++ anything). They don't go together. Period. Sorry about that.

As far as the CFtpConnection class goes, it's great. I know, because I've used it many times.

Good luck with the DLL. This is the way I would do it.

David

[coolbiz]

Actually if you search on either www.allapi.net or www.planetsourcecode.com, you'll find bunch of samples on FTP for VB This forum might have the links also. So search for it!

-Cool Bizs