activex-exe

I need to register an ActiveX exe programmatically and Shell(SomeActiveX.Exe /regserver) is not sufficient. Is anyone aware of an API equivalent? You can use DllRegisterServer to register a COM component programatically, if it's an in-process com object. Here is a VB6 example on MSDN . To register an out of process COM object, things get tricky. See Exposing ActiveX Objects . The Hello Sample shows some of the options. Larry Osterman blogged about this for background info. In general, if you need to do this to an EXE, shelling out to *.EXE /regserver will be much easier. You could try using

We are adapting our client side relatively complicated application (ActiveX / .net / Delphi / C++ / COM ) to use SxS to achieve non admin deployment and isolation from older versions of our product. We were able to achieve this goal for almost all our in proc components such as our .net ui, Delphi ui, and the COM servers we use in proc by composing a manifest file which described all the libraries used by our process, with no registration on the client of any of the components (almost). And here comes the almost part: At the moment, our application invokes (from it's c++ portion) an out of