Re: Installation Problems with COM Interop

pagates,

You said that you are using this "control" inside of VB6. By that, do
you mean an ActiveX control? If so, you should be warned that MS doesn't
support exporting ActiveX controls from .NET.

That being said, the registry settings are created when you run the
assembly through regasm, which will read the attributes and create the
assembly. That being said, you probably need to direct InstallShield to do
the same, assuming it doesn't have any facility to do it already.

Hope this helps.


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- Nicholas Paldino [.NET/C# MVP]
- mvp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

"pagates" <pagates@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:6B072D4C-2CF7-4840-8F89-FC330B3F7726@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Hello All,
>
> I have created a C# project that sets "Register for COM Interop" to true,
> and sets the ProgId and Guid attributes for the class. I then use this
> control inside VB6.
>
> This all works correctly on my development machine (oh no, one of those!),
> creating a DLL and a tlb on each compile, and setting the entries in the
> registry. It also appears to work correctly on a separate Build machine,
> where the output then gets packaged for installation using InstallShield
> 11.
> The .NET output gets packaged in a merge module, which is then included in
> a
> number of installations (both .NET and COM).
>
> When it gets installed, there are no installation errors. However, the
> registry settings (ProgID and CLSID, for example) are not being set, and
> therefore the control cannot be seen from a COM-based project using late
> binding. It works fine for a .NET test container, but since that's not
> registry-dependant, I am not surprised.
>
> I am not sure if this is a problem with the way I am setting up
> InstallShield, if there is an InstallShield issue, or if it is in the .NET
> code itself.
>
> If anybody has any ideas or experience with this, I'd appreciate any
> ideas.
>
> Thanks,
> pagates


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