Hi Chris,

The easiest is to use an installer that supports .NET. Most of the 'big
name' installers support .NET these days and make short work of registering
controls into the registry and registering for COM interop.

If you need to do this manually you need to have your installer run GacUtil
and RegAsm to register the component.

I have some tool that do this although I don't install the components into
the GAC, but use CodeBase install instead. This is not as straight forward
as it may seem because you have to find these utilities in the correct
folders for the right version etc. What I usually do is perform this sort of
registration first time the app starts up (by checking whether the COM
object is registered) - if it's not go out and handle the configuration. I
like to do this manually because in our apps at least customers can update
over the Web and in some cases the COM exposed .NET objects may also change.

I wrote this up as part of an Articleon COM interop. The section for
installation is at the bottom:

http://www.west-wind.com/presentations/VfpDotNetInterop/DotNetFromVFP.asp

Regards,

+++ Rick ---