is dll Registered?

not sure this is the right forum for this but I don't know what is...

I inherited an application that has a lot of dlls. Some are unmanaged com
dlls and need to be registered.

How can I tell if the dll is com?
How can I tell if it's registered?

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Regards,
Gary Blakely

Herfried
Tue Dec 11 14:28:37 PST 2007

"GaryDean" <GaryDean@newsgroups.nospam> schrieb:
> not sure this is the right forum for this but I don't know what is...
>
> I inherited an application that has a lot of dlls. Some are unmanaged com
> dlls and need to be registered.
>
> How can I tell if the dll is com?
> How can I tell if it's registered?

I suggest to take a look at the "OLE-COM Object Viewer" tool coming with
"bigger" versions of VS ("%PROGRAMFILES%\Microsoft Visual Studio
8\Common7\Tools\Bin\OleView.Exe"). In addition, take a look at the "regasm"
and "regsvr32" tools.

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M S Herfried K. Wagner
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Phil
Tue Dec 11 14:52:28 PST 2007

If you dependencywalker on them you'll see a DllRegisterServer (or not)
exported.

If you don't have the source to know the relevant guids, you'd use OLEView
to find CLSIDs, or use a tool that spies on registry changes when you run
regsvr32 on them to see what changes are made to the registry.
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Phil Wilson
[MVP Windows Installer]

"GaryDean" <GaryDean@newsgroups.nospam> wrote in message
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> not sure this is the right forum for this but I don't know what is...
>
> I inherited an application that has a lot of dlls. Some are unmanaged com
> dlls and need to be registered.
>
> How can I tell if the dll is com?
> How can I tell if it's registered?
>
> --
> Regards,
> Gary Blakely
>
>