COM object registration failure
Posted 20 August 2001 - 10:27
The install set builds and runs fine but when I try to use one of the COM objects it fails with an "ActiveX component can't create object" - the other works fine.
Being new to the windows installer I suspect I am doing something obviously wrong but I can't spot it myself. Does anyone have any ideas or suggestions of things I could try? Any help would be much appreciated because I'm running out of time now, thanks.
Posted 20 August 2001 - 14:42
Depending on your situation, you may want to use the SelfReg table.
Posted 20 August 2001 - 15:32
Posted 20 August 2001 - 19:09
I am using these tables, but I am also using the srm utility found on this site (forget exacty where), this produces a .reg file, that I then parse out to create my table entries for all COM components I need. I'm authoring the tables through the automation objects from a VB program. I also have a config file that tells me what file name to use and has the CompId (a GUID) stored so that I can resue it for the Windows Installer Compoent. Ugh, I wish they had used a different name, the terminology gets kind of confusing when you start to talk about COM Compoents and just WI components.
Posted 21 August 2001 - 09:22
Posted 21 August 2001 - 15:55
You are pretty much looking at using ORCA to modifiy those tables.