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Registering Components At Installation Time

Hi,

I have a VS 2005 WinForms project which has a flash player embeded in the form. My project referencesAxInterop.ShockwaveFlashObjects.dll

I created a Setup project for deplyment on prodcution machines. The setup project detects a dependency to the fileFlash10b.ocx. Upon installation and when trying to open the application for the first time, I get an an Unhandled Exception message indicating a class is not registered. After investigations I found that this component is the one causing the problem.

My solution is manually registering it via the regsvr32 command. Although the registration process fails, the application works perfectly when I do that.

I am stuck, what is the proper way to do that automatically at installation time?

Thanks

Leedo Tuesday, July 14, 2009 5:51 PM

The file properties window in the setup project has a Register property. Setting the OCX's Register property to vsdrfCOM should work.
My advice isthat youneed to be really careful with this. You're redistributing the Flash 10 control -you need a license from Adobe for that, right? -and if you don't install it in the same way (primarily location) then you'll break the client system. For example you cannot install it in your application folder - it needs to be the proper sharing location.

Phil Wilson

Marked As Answer byKira QianMSFT, ModeratorTuesday, July 21, 2009 6:08 AM

PhilWilson Tuesday, July 14, 2009 9:30 PM

Phil Wilson

Marked As Answer byKira QianMSFT, ModeratorTuesday, July 21, 2009 6:08 AM

PhilWilson Tuesday, July 14, 2009 9:30 PM

Thanks Phil for the advice. Well, I didn't know about the licensing issue here so really thanks for pointing that out. So what do you suggest one should do. Is this what every one does when they want to play flash files from within their applications? Or there is a better way without the licesing issue?

thx

Leedo Wednesday, July 15, 2009 3:58 PM

The licence is free as far as I know, and maybe it gives you some info about how to install, and I suspect that maybe there is a Flash merge module.

Phil Wilson

PhilWilson Wednesday, July 15, 2009 5:49 PM

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