2005 COM visible

[Chubbly Geezer]

I previously used REGASM with .Net to make my classes COM visible.

Is this still required in 2005. There are various options that imply not.
You can amend the assembly to mark it as COM visible and also mark the
classes as COM classes.

However, through trial and error I cannot get this to work.

Thanks

 

[Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]]

I previously used REGASM with .Net to make my classes COM visible.
Yes.

Is this still required in 2005. There are various options that imply not.
You can amend the assembly to mark it as COM visible and also mark the
classes as COM classes.

You could mark classes as COM classes in .NET 1.* too, and you could enable
automatic registration of the library for COM in VS.NET 2003 too on the
development machine. However, this doesn't imply that no registration is
required on the target machine.

 

[Chubbly Geezer]

So is there any benefit of marking anything as COM in 2005.? Am I missing
the point here.?

 

[Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]]

So is there any benefit of marking anything as COM in 2005.? Am I missing
the point here.?

It simplifies development because you do not need to register the assembly
every time you recompile it by hand.

 

[Chubbly Geezer]

Thanks

It simplifies development because you do not need to register the assembly
every time you recompile it by hand.