Visual Basic® 2010 Unleashed

Registration-Free COM

One of the biggest benefits from ClickOnce is that users that do not have administrator permissions can install applications. By the way, there are situations in which an application is deployed together with some COM libraries but this can be a problem because such libraries need to be registered and a non-administrator user does not have the appropriate permissions for this. Fortunately with ClickOnce you can take advantage of a technique known as Registration-Free COM which basically makes a reference to a COM library visible to the application only, without the need of registration. You simply need to right-click the library name in Solution Explorer, References and then select Properties. Finally set the Isolated ...