Re: VS.Net 2005: Uses regsvr32 with undocumented options and fails to register

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adebaene@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Eugene Gershnik a écrit :
>>> Would you like to have everybody able to install
>>> any
>>> COM component on your machine? Is this used by IE when downloading
>>> an ActiveX?
>>
>> As long as this component is only visible to the same user, why not?
> Hmmm... I would like to have few more security checks in this case...

Like what?

> What will be helpfull would be to have a parameter to
> DllRegisterServer
> to specify which kind of registration is required (per user or machine
> wide).

Well there is DllInstall
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/shellcc/platform/shell/reference/shlwapi/version/dllinstall.asp

Then of course the disgusting Windows Installer does expose this
functionality at a price of abandoning self-contained component
registration.


--
Eugene
http://www.gershnik.com


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