OK got the dll to load (thanks Quadraxas) but when I run the example I get an error that says Crash in main and error E1513 which says there may be an empty pointer. OK empty pointers to strings do that a lot, so I made all String declarations using the old way char dbField[25]; but I still get the same error. So now I am stuck and not having the code to the dll I have no idea how to continiue.