Manually generate ActiveX wrapper after TLBIMP-ed dlls?

Question

I have several ActiveX components that needed to be accessed from a C# project.

I can import them via Visual Studio\'s add reference dialog, which will also automati

Answer 1

Oh... found it after looking at the folder where TLBIMP belongs.

It's called AxImp.

C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v6.0A\bin\AxImp.exe

So basically, to generate a PIA DLL in your own customized namespace:

1. Register your OCX

   regsvr32 abc.ocx

2. Generate a strong name key pair for you ocx by running

   sn -k

3. Run TLBIMP and specify the desired namespace

   tlbimp abc.ocx /primary /keyfile:abc.snk /out:abc.dll /namespace:MyNamespace

4. Run AXIMP on the ocx and use the rcw switch to use your own manully generated PIA DLL.

   aximp abc.ocx /source /rcw:abc.dll

That should do it.

There are however some problems with ancient TLBs being imported. I am not sure how to fix that yet.