DOCUMENT:Q138062  11-JAN-2001  [vbwin]
TITLE   :How to Specify the Base Address of a VB OLE Server DLL
PRODUCT :Microsoft Visual Basic for Windows
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The information in this article applies to:

 - Microsoft Visual Basic Professional Edition, 16-bit, for Windows, version 4.0 
 - Microsoft Visual Basic Professional Edition, 32-bit, for Windows, version 4.0 
 - Microsoft Visual Basic Enterprise Edition, 16-bit, for Windows, version 4.0 
 - Microsoft Visual Basic Enterprise Edition, 32-bit, for Windows, version 4.0 
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It is possible to specify the preferred address in memory where you want an OLE
DLL that was created in Visual Basic to be loaded. If the OLE DLL is unable to
load at the preferred address, it automatically finds a suitable address;
however, the OLE DLL may take longer to load into memory in this case, and will
consume more system resources (swap file and possibly memory). By specifying a
base address, you may improve the performance of the OLE DLL by anticipating and
avoiding conflicts with other OLE DLLs.

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With Win32, each process has its own 4 GB virtual address space. Any DLLs that
the process might use, are loaded into this address space. If a DLL could be
loaded as is using the addresses within it as calculated from the specified base
address, then it can be memory mapped right off the disk. No relocation is
required. However, if relocation is required because some other DLL is occupying
the memory at the specified base address or because of another use of that
memory (such as memory-mapped files, memory allocations, reserved virtual
address ranges, and so on), then a new temporary copy of it is automatically
made with the new offsets and mapped onto the new memory location in the
process's virtual address space.

Memory addresses beyond the location 11000000 are typically used by Visual Basic
OLE DLLs. So this is the default value of the base address that is used if you
don't specify one when compiling the DLL.

If your application uses two DLLs, you can load them faster by specifying
appropriate base addresses. You could specify the default base address for the
first DLL and add the size of this DLL to this base address in order to
determine the base address for the second DLL.

Additional query words: 4.00 inproc vb4win vb4all

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