Is there a programmatic way in C# to determine whether a particular COM DLL has been installed? Or is this a matter of scanning the registry for the classId?
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Is there a programmatic way in C# to determine whether a particular COM DLL has been installed? Or is this a matter of scanning the registry for the classId?
What I usually did (and would do, if I needed this again) is try to create an object instance of a class you know is in the COM library – either by ProgID or GUID – and checking for failure.