Deploying vb6 (unmanaged) dll with .net applications 1

[cocoder]

I have a .net application that uses a dll written in VB6. That dll uses two other unmanaged dlls as well as the visual basic common control library. I've got it all working well on my development computer but now I need to package it up for deployment and it's not working. I can get the application installed and I can run it but as soon as I click the button that instantiates the dll I get a runtime error.

So what special steps do I need to take so that these files will be properly installed during setup? (need to deploy to a machine running Vista. OK for admin install but need to be able to run in non-admin mode)

 

[Bluejay07]

Simple question but are the dll's actually being loaded with the deployment? If not then you must add it to the deployment package.

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[cocoder]

nope...they weren't. The interop was being added but not the dll. So I added them, set the register property to vsdrfCOMSelfReg and it all works great. Thanks

One more question, though. The second DLL will be used for more than one application so I'd like to avoid putting it in the application folder. I guess I'm not supposed to put it in system32 anymore (and not sure how to do that with this setup package anyway) so what would be the preferred location for the file and how would I get it there?