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Reg-Free COM question (.manifest & Implemented Categories of )

Nick Rivers
10/27/2006 1:05:57 PM

dotnet interop: Hi!

Do .manifest files support 'Implemented Categories' entries of COM
components?
I could not find anything about it in the MSDN or internet.

Cause these Implemented Categorie registry entries will be created the
DLLRegisterServer function of
my COM component. I don´t know how to merge these entries into the .manifest
file
for Reg-Free COM.

Thanks,
Nick

Re: Reg-Free COM question (.manifest & Implemented Categories of )

Phil Wilson
10/27/2006 4:59:16 PM

I don't believe they do. There wouldn't be much point because the main
purpose of the Implemented Categories data is for development tools to
browse the registry and categorise the COM objects according to what they
do, offering them in the development environment. You want to browse
controls? These are all the ones in that category. I'm pretty sure they're
not used at run time by the COM infrastructure.
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Phil Wilson
[Microsoft MVP - Windows Installer]
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