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Lauren Hines - 23 Mar 2004 23:54 GMT

Hello,
I have created an Internet Explorer toolbar dll in c# and I am now trying to
create an installation program for it. For testing purposes, I ran gacutil
and regasm in order for the toolbar to show up in IE, and everything worked
fine.

I am currently using Microsoft's 'setup project' template, and I have been
able to replace gacutil by adding the neccessary files to the Global
Assembly Cache Folder in the File System on Target Machine.

Unfortunately, I am unable to figure out how to replace 'regasm.exe'. I have
set the Register property to both vsdraCOM and vsdraCOMRelativePath, to no
avail. The setup is not even calling my ComRegisterFunctionAttribute ( I put
in a message box to verify).

Does any installation package have a solution to this?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Lauren Hines

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Phil Wilson - 24 Mar 2004 17:09 GMT

A MSI setup won't call your ComRegisterFunctionAttribute methods - they're
for regasm. If you've declared classes and interfaces with the right GUIDs
etc, vsdraCOM should work fine. I assume you know what your CLSID is, so
look in the registry after the install and check that you have an
InprocServer32 key pointing to mscoree.dll with your class name, public key
token, version etc. It also helps to nail down version in Assemblyinfo.xx -
it defaults to containing an * and every build will give you a different
version so you register one version but install another. If you get an
hresult, that helps identify the problem as the COM side or the managed
side.

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> Hello,
> I have created an Internet Explorer toolbar dll in c# and I am now trying to
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> Thanks,
> Lauren Hines

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Lauren Hines - 25 Mar 2004 16:20 GMT

Thank you so much, it must have been working all along - I just needed to
add the creation of my own registry key for "SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\Internet
Explorer\\Toolbar" in the setup, instead of doing it in the
ComRegisterFunctionAttribute.

I appreciate your explanation.

Lauren

> A MSI setup won't call your ComRegisterFunctionAttribute methods - they're
> for regasm. If you've declared classes and interfaces with the right GUIDs
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> > Thanks,
> > Lauren Hines

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