How to create excel add-in (excel 2003 or previous version) package with activeX dll?

Question

I am new to excel add-in prgramming and I am having a existing excel add-in project need to modify.

The plug-in has 2 parts, one is programmed in VB and compiled into a

Answer 1

Welcome to DLL Hell!

You'll have to remove the reference to the old dll.

Have a look at: regsvr32

1. Close Excel
2. Click Start / Run / cmd
3. Type regsvr32 /u [path of old dll]/[filename]
4. Then regsvr32 [path of new dll]/[filename]

Eg: regsvr32 /u c:\windows\system32\file.dll

You can add /q to hide all messages

How do you repackage it for your colleagues? There are multiple ways. Create a bat file and email it, put it as part of the logon script. Or go to each workstation and manually do it