Finding RegAsm on target computer when deploying an assembly

[Kenneth Jonsson]

I have an COM server in an assembly. When it is deployed on a target computer
it needs to be registred with RegAsm. I created a custom action in the deploy
project, starting RegAsm with the assembly DLL as command argument. It all
works as expected.
To make RegAsm available I installed it from the framework bin directory to
the componentes application folder on the target machine. An custom action
can only refer executables in application folder, user app data folder etc.
It can not refer executables in Windows or in other places then the ones
defined in the deploy project.
The is not well when I installed an framework 1.1 version of RegAsm, but the
target contaings framework 2.0 only! It failes to register the component.

Q1: is there a way to locate the active framework (perhaps the latest) on
the target computer?
Q2: Should I create a BAT-script to do the registration?
Q3: What would it look like, to adress the latest available RegAsm on the
target computer?

Regards,
Kenneth Jonsson

[Sebastian Wain]

Hi Kenneth,

Please see the post at:
http://groups.google.com/group/micro...0a8ec5aa083ef1

I think it will be useful for your case.

Regards,
Sebastian Wain
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http://www.nektra.com

Kenneth Jonsson wrote:

I have an COM server in an assembly. When it is deployed on a target computer
it needs to be registred with RegAsm. I created a custom action in the deploy
project, starting RegAsm with the assembly DLL as command argument. It all
works as expected.
To make RegAsm available I installed it from the framework bin directory to
the componentes application folder on the target machine. An custom action
can only refer executables in application folder, user app data folder etc.
It can not refer executables in Windows or in other places then the ones
defined in the deploy project.
The is not well when I installed an framework 1.1 version of RegAsm, but the
target contaings framework 2.0 only! It failes to register the component.

Q1: is there a way to locate the active framework (perhaps the latest) on
the target computer?
Q2: Should I create a BAT-script to do the registration?
Q3: What would it look like, to adress the latest available RegAsm on the
target computer?

Regards,
Kenneth Jonsson

[Phil Wilson]

Most of the time you can just drag your assembly into the File System on
Target Machine folder and set its Register property to vsdraCOM, and the
setup will take care of it for you. You might also need to register the type
library. Regasm does this for you, but vsdraCOM does not, so use Tlbimp to
make a type library and drag that into the setup project too.
--
Phil Wilson [MVP Windows Installer]
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I have an COM server in an assembly. When it is deployed on a target
computer
it needs to be registred with RegAsm. I created a custom action in the
deploy
project, starting RegAsm with the assembly DLL as command argument. It all
works as expected.
To make RegAsm available I installed it from the framework bin directory
to
the componentes application folder on the target machine. An custom action
can only refer executables in application folder, user app data folder
etc.
It can not refer executables in Windows or in other places then the ones
defined in the deploy project.
The is not well when I installed an framework 1.1 version of RegAsm, but
the
target contaings framework 2.0 only! It failes to register the component.

Q1: is there a way to locate the active framework (perhaps the latest) on
the target computer?
Q2: Should I create a BAT-script to do the registration?
Q3: What would it look like, to adress the latest available RegAsm on the
target computer?

Regards,
Kenneth Jonsson