Calling Regsvr32 on a .NET Assembly

[Sahil Malik]

Fairly simple question !!!

The title says it all. But here is a further description -

I have a software that expects a COM DLL. Due to certain requirements we
have to create a .NET assembly instead.

I know we can do RegAsm, but the way we have to "load" this assembly into
another program is that ... the other program calls DllRegisterServer on it
directly - (regsvr32 equivalent).

So my question is - How can we fake a .NET assembly so that regsvr32.exe
thinks it is indeed a COM DLL and we use it VIA RegSvr32 and not RegAsm.exe.

Regards,

- Sahil Malik
http://dotnetjunkies.com/weblog/sahilmalik
http://blogs.apress.com/authors.php?author=Sahil Malik

[John Wood]

If you have access to MC++ you could always write a small DLL that uses the
RegistrationServices class in its DllRegisterServer method, delegating to
the runtime to register the actual assembly.

And out of interest, how does it determine the CLSID of the object to
instantiate from the DLL you give it?

--
John Wood
Blog: http://spaces.msn.com/members/johnwood

"Sahil Malik" <co*****************@nospam.com> wrote in message
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Fairly simple question !!!

The title says it all. But here is a further description -

I have a software that expects a COM DLL. Due to certain requirements we
have to create a .NET assembly instead.

I know we can do RegAsm, but the way we have to "load" this assembly into
another program is that ... the other program calls DllRegisterServer on it directly - (regsvr32 equivalent).

So my question is - How can we fake a .NET assembly so that regsvr32.exe
thinks it is indeed a COM DLL and we use it VIA RegSvr32 and not RegAsm.exe.
Regards,

- Sahil Malik
http://dotnetjunkies.com/weblog/sahilmalik
http://blogs.apress.com/authors.php?author=Sahil Malik

[Sahil Malik]

John,

That was my recommended solution too, but I was wondering if we could keep
it withing C#.

To answer your question - It calls does regsvr32's job of registering it, -
then it is like any other com registered dll.

- Sahil Malik
You can reach me thru my blog -
http://www.dotnetjunkies.com/weblog/sahilmalik

"John Wood" <john.wood@priorganize_nospam__.com> wrote in message
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If you have access to MC++ you could always write a small DLL that uses
the
RegistrationServices class in its DllRegisterServer method, delegating to
the runtime to register the actual assembly.

And out of interest, how does it determine the CLSID of the object to
instantiate from the DLL you give it?

--
John Wood
Blog: http://spaces.msn.com/members/johnwood

"Sahil Malik" <co*****************@nospam.com> wrote in message
news:ur****************@TK2MSFTNGP14.phx.gbl...

Fairly simple question !!!

The title says it all. But here is a further description -

I have a software that expects a COM DLL. Due to certain requirements we
have to create a .NET assembly instead.

I know we can do RegAsm, but the way we have to "load" this assembly into
another program is that ... the other program calls DllRegisterServer on

it

directly - (regsvr32 equivalent).

So my question is - How can we fake a .NET assembly so that regsvr32.exe
thinks it is indeed a COM DLL and we use it VIA RegSvr32 and not

RegAsm.exe.

Regards,

- Sahil Malik
http://dotnetjunkies.com/weblog/sahilmalik
http://blogs.apress.com/authors.php?author=Sahil Malik