Visual Basic 2015 Unleashed

Registration-Free COM

One of the biggest benefits from ClickOnce is users do not have administrator permissions that can install applications. Note that there are situations in which an application is deployed together with some COM libraries, but this can be a problem because these 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 refers to a COM library visible to the application only without the need of registration. You need to right-click the library name in Solution Explorer, References and select Properties. Finally, set the Isolated property as True (see Figure 50.15). ...