Hello, I need to fix a bug in a Delphi 6 application, which uses a home-made COM server DLL (Automation server). In order to fix the bug, I must add a new interface to the TLB of the server DLL and have one of the CoClasses support the interface.
The drawback of this is, that the customers now need to register the COM server again on each workstation... or don't they? The problem is, that due to security issues, often only an administrator can make entries in the HKCR or HKLM roots of the registry and so the customer's IT department won't like this fix. Now my question is, whether they really have to explicitly register this COM server again. I didn't change the TLB version number, so the Library ID as well as all the CLSID's are in place already. I only added a new interface to the TLB, but to use that, the application simply calls QueryInterface and I don't see why a new registration is needed. The COM server is only intended to be used by my own application and not by, say VBA (I don't even know if this remark is even relevant). On my own machine, I just rebuild the COM server and I did not re-register it. After fixing the application, it works. So it doesn't seem necessary to register again. My only doubt comes from the fact that I do find interfaces in the registry under the HKCR\Interfaces key. What are they used for? Do I need such a registration some way for my new interface? Have a nice day! Peter Laman Senior Software Engineer Lance ICT Group Roermond, the Netherlands http://www.lance-safety.com __________________________________________________ Delphi-Talk mailing list -> Delphi-Talk@elists.org http://www.elists.org/mailman/listinfo/delphi-talk
