I have a Visual Studio 7 executable application that dynamically loads
DLL files from my \DLL Directory. However one of these DLLs is created
with Visual Studio 8 and needs the runtime files. I want to redistribute
the runtime files as private assemblies in my \3rd directory.

Don't know if this is the right newsgroup, but here goes:
Do .Net service applications offer a similar capability to a COM Service
where the server can be assessed from a GUI via some exposed methods of the
service?  If so, how; if not, what is the accepted way to acheive IPC from ...

             Can anyone tell me whether there is any API function to create
the cab file in VC++?
Thanks & Regards
sumana

I have a DLL with mixed mode code that uses a couple of unmanaged static
libraries. I had been generating the static libraries with Code Generation
set to Single-threaded Debug (/MLd). The DLL is set to
Multi-threaded Debug DLL (/MDd) - The app that call the DLL is set to