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Using Registration-Free COM Interop with a C# .NET DLL without codebase/GAC?

I have a C# .NET DLL that is exposed through COM Interop for which I have generated a manifest file. The DLL is being consumed through an Excel VBAProject using CreateActCtx and CreateObject to create my objects. Everything works fine, however... I…
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Simulating SideBySide for Out of Process ActiveX

We are adapting our client side relatively complicated application (ActiveX / .net / Delphi / C++ / COM ) to use SxS to achieve non admin deployment and isolation from older versions of our product. We were able to achieve this goal for almost all…
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Per Application config file bindingRedirect doesn't apply to Dlls

I created a simple Win32 application to demonstrate UXtheme on XP by including a manifest dependency on the ver 6 commctl32.dll I then created a simple Win32 dll, built it with ISOLATION_AWARE_ENABLED, and tested it with an embedded manifest…
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Building and deploying dll on windows: SxS, manifests and all that jazz

Since VS 2005, I see that it is not possible to simply build a dll against MS runtime and deploy them together (http://www.ddj.com/windows/184406482). I am deeply confused by manifest, SxS and co: MSDN documentation is really poor, with circular…
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COM Registration free (SxS) and proxy stub for STA->MTA

I'm trying to use my C++ COM API (loaded inside a C++ application) from C# (as an addin) without any registration. I follow steps from this tutorials So what I did is: to create an activation context from my C++ application at startup. I'm passing…
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Assembly identity names in SxS manifests

I have two questions regarding activation context API and SxS manifests. They look like very simple, but still I cannot find any good answer for them. I have two dll libraries with filenames foo.dll and bar.dll, both with embedded manifests, foo…
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Is possible to make mt.exe embed manifest files correctly in Visual Studio 2008?

I found that mt.exe fails to correctly create and embed manifest files into executables when run inside a VCPROJ. For example the same executable load well on Windows 7 but failed to load on Windows XP. The manifest was embedded and correct. The…
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Registering and using out-of-proc COM server in an isolated way (SxS)

We have the following configuration: IE->Creates new process->Process uses out-of-proc COM server We would like to enjoy side-by-side for our new process and out-of-proc COM server which are deployed in an isolated folder. We thought using COM…
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SxS installations and WiX

I'm trying to figure out how to deal with installation and deployment of our project which is a framework. Typically developers would install the framework and then have their .Net applications reference our dlls. The framework has 2 levels: A…
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Install Shield- Merge module dependency issues. Dll is not registering

My Issue: I have created two merge modules. Lets call them A and B. Merge Module B is dependent on A. A installs aaa.dll to windows side-by-side. B contains bbb.dll which registers during installation and is dependent on aaa.dll. As a side note…
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How to remove uninstalled DLL from SxS cache

I had VS 2008. I upgraded to VS 2010, and uninstalled VS 2008. I have a test that runs on my machine, but fails to load on machines in the build lab. After some debugging, I realized that the test executable still had a dependency on msvcr90d.dll…
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Is there a way to specify File Name= in UMMM (Unattended Make My Manifest) creation of Program.exe.manifest?

Is there a way to adjust the UMMM.ini file and / or the UMMM.bat file to specify in the the \Dependencies subdirectory when it creates the Program.exe.manifest? Re: vb6 "regfreecom" autocreate manifest for ocx file Re: VB6…
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Side by Side manifests, hot or falling from grace?

We have run in some .dll hell problems for our clients lately, so I was wondering if SxS installations of the requiered .dll's and .ocx's is a good idea. I read about it and succeeded in deploying our application when at least some of its…
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Side by side in dll

I have the following situation: An executable developed in C# links a managed DLL which calls another third party DLL (loaded as side by side). The exe doesn't use directly any object from the third party DLL. The relation between the components…
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Visual Studios: Application Failed to Start Because Configuration is Incorrect, SxS Error

I have a visual studios 2010 project, and it's compiling without any problem. When I go to run it, I'm encountering a: This application has failed to start because the application configuration is incorrect. This was compiling and running…
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