RegASM

[Chad Z. Hower aka Kudzu]

What exactly does regasm do? Do I need to run it on all my compiled asms?


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[Chris Botha]

Only if you want an assembly to be registered as an ActiveX DLL, then use
regasm.exe to register it (equivalent of regsvr32.exe in VB6 I would say).

 

[Chad Z. Hower aka Kudzu]

Only if you want an assembly to be registered as an ActiveX DLL, then use
regasm.exe to register it (equivalent of regsvr32.exe in VB6 I would say).

Define "registered as an ActiveX DLL".

I know what this means in a non .net context, but Im not sure what
implications it would have regarding .net.

Im just building classes that are exported via assembly. Right now they are
not installed into the vs.net toolbox, but will be at a later date.


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[Guest]

I’ve build a dll written in c# with guid and progId attributes given, but failed to register via regasm. What’s wrong with this?!

 

[Chris Botha]

Also known as a COM DLL, thus can be used by a VB6 program, the old ASPs, MS
Access, etc, etc.
If your .net assemblies will only be used in the .net environment, then you
don't register them.

 

[Chris Botha]

Use the /codebase switch when you run regasm

I've build a dll written in c# with guid and progId attributes given, but

failed to register via regasm. What's wrong with this?!

 

[Ashish Sheth]

When you want a non-.NET client wants to use a .NET assembly you have to
expose the .NET assembly as a COM Dll. You can do this by registering the
assembly using regasm.exe.
Regasm.exe generates a type library (.tlb) for the .NET assembly which can
be used by Non-.NET client(such as VB 6, ASP) to get the information of the
types defined in the assembly.
I think this clears your doubt.

regards,
Ashish Sheth

 

[Chad Z. Hower aka Kudzu]

I think this clears your doubt.

Yes, thanks.


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