Operation not allowed in DLL

Not all Visual Basic statements are allowed within a dynamic-link library (DLL). This error has the following causes and solutions:

  • You tried to create a DLL from a class that contains a statement that can't be executed from a DLL.

    Check your class and remove any statements that can't be executed within a DLL, for example, the End statement.

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