How can I register a COM DLL using VB.NET 2.0?

Use the TLBIMP tool

See the following
http://www32.brinkster.com/srisamp/netArticles/article_16.htm

My application is already compete.  Visual Studio created an interop DLL to go along with the COM DLL.  I just need to be able to register the COM DLL and I want to do it using my application.

Todd

Then you can ignore the warning

Forget the last message...

You just need to make a reference to the interop assembly then.

You don't want to use late binding don't you? (If so you need reflection)

I need to register a COM DLL using VB.NET 2.0.  How can I do that?  I just want it to do it without any windows or dialog boxes and if it fails for any reason to to continue on without causing an error.

Here is another way to ask my question.  How can I do this in VB.NET 2.0 code?

    regsvr32 <path & filename of dll>

You may also use System.Diagnostics.Process

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.diagnostics.process.aspx

For others, here is the VB.NET 2.0 code that I ended up using.

    Shell("regsvr32 /s """ & MyDLL & """)

where "/s" causes the operation to be silent and MyDLL is a string that has the full path and dll name including ".dll".  For example

    MyDLL = "C:\Program Files\MyProgram\MyDLL.DLL"

Thanks for the help,

Todd