COM Interop registration failed for Interface only DLL

[Eric St-Onge]

Hi all,

I have a C# DLL containing only interfaces that I want to have a TLB (type
library) generated for.

For that I use the "Register for COM Interop" compiler option but it gives
me the error

*******************
Building satellite assemblies...
Registering project output for COM Interop...
COM Interop registration failed. There are no registrable types in the built
assembly.
---------------------- Done ----------------------

Build: 0 succeeded, 1 failed, 0 skipped
*******************

Even with this error my TLB was well generated but it makes my build script
think that the build didn't succeed, which is not acceptable for me.

I understand why this is happening: this is because there are no types in my
assembly that are creatable. But that shouldn't lead to an error but rather
to a simple warning?? right? (please correct me if I am wrong)

Anybody knows a workaround so that my TLB will get generated and my build
result will not be a failure?

(from what I remember back in time using VB6 and VC6, it was acceptable to
have COM DLLs composed uniquely of "PublicNonCreatable" COM objects...)

Thanks
Eric

 

[Luc E. Mistiaen]

Use TlbImp instead of RegAsm

/LM

 

[Luc E. Mistiaen]

Err:

read TlbExp instead of TlbImp

/LM

Use TlbImp instead of RegAsm

/LM

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[Guest]

So you are suggesting to not use the "Register COM Interop" option in VSNET2003 and rather use a PostBuild step that will call TlbExp..

Using PostBuild steps it is also possible to call
regasm myasm.dll /TLB:myasm.tlb

which produces the same effect without errors (compared to VSNET2003 check box) and additionnaly registers the tlb in the registry.

Thanks for your help
Eric

 

[Guest]

Oops, small problem!

It appears that VSNET2003, by default, is not able to find regasm when used in post build steps!!!
Is there a way to solve that ? (hardcoding the path to the file is not acceptable because it won't work when others will build the solution)

If I use TLBEXP, will my tlb registered in the registry?
If not, how do I have it registered?

Thanks
Eric

 

[Luc E. Mistiaen]

If I use TLBEXP, will my tlb registered in the registry?
Don't think so

If not, how do I have it registered?

Use RegSvr32.exe maybe

/LM