For those early versions of Windows (1.0 to 3.11), the DLLs were the foundation for the entire GUI. Data files with the same file format as a DLL, but with different file extensions and possibly containing only resource sections, can be called resource DLLs. Examples of such DLLs include icon libraries, sometimes having the extension ICL, and font files, having the extensions FON and FOT. I had this problem using Visual Studio 12 and after checking to make sure I…