registering assembly upon deployment

[Nikhil Patel]

Hi all,
I am creating a setup and deployment project for a signed assembly and
need to register it when it is installed. How can set it to register when it
is installed?

Thanks.

 

[Guest]

What do you mean register, put it into the gac? Use gacutil with reference
counting.

 

[Nikhil Patel]

Hi,
Thanks for your reply. I need to use it in the <OBJECT> tag of an HTML
file. So I need to register it with windows.

 

[Guest]

Is is a COM callable wrapper...?

Hi,
Thanks for your reply. I need to use it in the <OBJECT> tag of an HTML
file. So I need to register it with windows.

 

[Guest]

Write a Custom Action to do your need.

Refer the follwing article.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/d...mactiontocreatedatabaseduringinstallation.asp

register your assembly using regsvr32
Modify the below line the above article to teh following
Dim Si As New
ProcessStartInfo(System.Environment.GetFolderPath(Environment.SpecialFolder.System) & "regsvr32.exe", Chr(34) & yourAssemblyName & Chr(34))

Regards
Prakash

 

[Phil Wilson]

Visual Studio Setup&Deployment projects have a vsdrxRegister property for
this (that x might be an 'a' or a 'p' depending on your project). It works
by running regasm /regfile when you build the MSI file, and the resulting
data is in the MSI file for use at install time. It doesn't register type
library info though.