Hi folks, We're working on the installer for an XP thumbnail extraction shell extension COM component. Does anyone know if "registration free COM" manifest installation will work for a shell extension component? (I'm not sure how the shell would ever know where to look for it.) If it's compatible, can you suggest what info we need to supply the project configuration's Manifest / Isolated COM "Registrar script file" and "Component file name" settings? I tried putting the paths of the two .rgs files generated for the component and dll seperated by a semi-colon in the Registrar... property, but the build failed with the ever mysterious PRJ0002 / mt.exe 31 error. If I only put one rgs file in, it works -- do you need to combine the .rgs files into a single rgs file for this to work? Thanks
linearred wrote: > We're working on the installer for an XP thumbnail extraction shell > extension COM component. Does anyone know if "registration free COM" > manifest installation will work for a shell extension component? No, it won't work, because the application (Explorer, or any other app that uses the shell) doesn't have a dependency on your component's assembly. -- Jim Barry, Microsoft MVP
Thanks, Jim "Jim Barry" wrote in message news:e6JllPs0IHA.5728@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl... linearred wrote: > We're working on the installer for an XP thumbnail extraction shell > extension COM component. Does anyone know if "registration free COM" > manifest installation will work for a shell extension component? No, it won't work, because the application (Explorer, or any other app that uses the shell) doesn't have a dependency on your component's assembly. -- Jim Barry, Microsoft MVP
