Registering Components

When the following types of applications are installed, installation information must be added to the registry, usually through a setup program:

• Server applications
• Container/server applications
• Container applications that allow linking to embedded objects

For all three instances, register COM library (DLL) information and application-specific information.

The DLL registers the information for all its components by exporting DllRegisterServer and DllUnregisterServer. Use the following functions to register and unregister a component:

• RegOpenKeyEx
• RegCreateKeyEx
• RegSetValueEx
• RegEnumKeyEx
• RegDeleteKey
• RegCloseKey

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Registering COM Applications