Regasm: How to use?

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Howard Kaikow

I was playing with a COM example in an article at the MSFT web site.
This resulted in a DLL, call it x.dll, getting registered.

When I was done, I tried to unregister the dll using

regasm /u path\x.dll

Got an error, don't recall the text of the error.

So my fat fingers went into regedit and tried to delete all keys referring
to x.dll, other than those in the obvious MRU lists.
When I tried to delete, as I recall, the keys in HKCR, I was not allowed to
do so.
Rebooted and the keys were gone.

I figured that I must have screwed up as that was a mighty dirty process.
I copied x.dll, x.pdb, and x.tlb to D:\ to reduce fat finger errors.

I then used

regasm d:\x.dll

Checking the registry, I saw that the critter was registered.
Flush with my success, I then tried

regasm d:\x.dll /u

Sadly, that resulted in the same error as when I manually deleted the keys.

Rebooting caused the dll to become unregistered.

Obviously, I'm missing something.
How is one supposed to unregister a DLL, be it COM or not?
 
Howard Kaikow said:
I was playing with a COM example in an article at the MSFT web
site. This resulted in a DLL, call it x.dll, getting registered.

When I was done, I tried to unregister the dll using

regasm /u path\x.dll

Got an error, don't recall the text of the error.
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I don't see a VB.Net related question. The best fitting group is probably
microsoft.public.dotnet.framework.interop or you may find a better framework
related group.


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* "Howard Kaikow said:
When I was done, I tried to unregister the dll using

regasm /u path\x.dll

Got an error, don't recall the text of the error.

So my fat fingers went into regedit and tried to delete all keys referring
to x.dll, other than those in the obvious MRU lists.
When I tried to delete, as I recall, the keys in HKCR, I was not allowed to
do so.
Rebooted and the keys were gone.

I figured that I must have screwed up as that was a mighty dirty process.
I copied x.dll, x.pdb, and x.tlb to D:\ to reduce fat finger errors.

I then used

regasm d:\x.dll

Checking the registry, I saw that the critter was registered.
Flush with my success, I then tried

regasm d:\x.dll /u

Sadly, that resulted in the same error as when I manually deleted the keys.

Rebooting caused the dll to become unregistered.
Click to expand...

Post the error message. It's impossible to help without knowing it.
 
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