An easy way to create Side by Side registrationless COM Manifests with Visual Studio
Posted by: Rick Strahls WebLog,
on 09 Oct 2011 |
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Here's something I didn't find out until today: You can use Visual Studio to easily create registrationless COM manifest files for you with just a couple of small steps. Registrationless COM lets you use COM component without them being registered in the registry. This means it's possible to deploy COM components along with another application using plain xcopy semantics. To be sure it's rarely quite that easy - you need to watch out for dependencies - but if you know you have COM components that...