Using the Acrobat SDK with READER

I have successfully coded (C#) against Acrobat Pro. in the past. Since ACROBAT.DLL is not provided with Acrobat Reader, how can you code against it? The sample code provided with the SDK shows it's use with ACROBAT.DLL and states that limited functionality is available for Reader, but how can that be if ACROBAT.dll is not provided with Reader? Am I missing a concept here? Is there another DLL and TLB to use for Reader? I'm lost!
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return 0;
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return 0;
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return 0;
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return 0;
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return NULL;
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