Re: Accessing a DLL without registering it

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I believe ActiveX DLL's need to be registered.
Why don't you just have your .EXE file register the as needed.

If this is an internal or corporate application where you have a good deal
of trust with the users, this would be fine I think. Otherwise, it might
look a bit like malware/spyware.

I certainly wouldn't use an application that didn't have an
install/uninstall with it.



"Thomas Malia" <tommalia@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hey folks,



I've written a custom DLL that I'm using within several new EXE's. For
distribution of these programs, I'd really rather NOT require any setup
process to need to be run for each workstation that the program might be run
from. I'd rather be able to install the EXE and the DLL to a shared
directory on a server and then just let people directly launch the program
from the share without having to run any setup processes.



I had thought that actually registration of a DLL was only necessary if the
DLL could not be found in the directory where the program was running from.
However, so far I have not been able to get my applications to run without
explicitly registering the DLL (using Regsrv32.exe).



Is this an absolute requirement? Isn't there some way to create a reference
to a DLL in an EXE that will first try to find the necessary DLL in the
search path of the application and IF it doesn't find it there, then look in
the registry? I'm sure this is my naiveté about using DLL that's the
problem here. there most be something that can be done that I'm just not
familiar with.



Thanks in advance for any help,

Tom Malia



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