I have a dependency on several COM components. My project is managed. I want to ensure that the most recent version of the COM DLL is registered pre-build. I have added regsvr32 calls on the DLLs in the pre-build step but it never seems to work correctly. When the project is built it complains that the type isn’t registered. I have both isolated and non-isolated components.
How do people handle this situation? Is regsvr32 the only answer? Why does MSBuild fail to notice that the types have been registered?
Regsvr32 is the way to register your typelib and COM server information in the registry. It’s a trivial process, and I’m suprised that it doesn’t work. Have you hand verified the process to make sure its not something else, like supplying the wrong path to regsvr32?