Register and unregister a DLL in a Windows Setup Project

windows dll setup-project
user591410 picture user591410 · Feb 28, 2012 · Viewed 10.5k times · Source

I have couple of dll files that need to be registered/unregistered when a Windows installer is installed/uninstalled respectively.

I tried the following - Created a .bat file to register the dll. The issue is I am not able to add a .bat file using 'Custom Actions' in Setup Project.

Also, how to run unregister dll while uninstalling ? Please advice. Thanks.

Answer

Frank Li picture Frank Li · May 22, 2012

Below info is my register dll step: 1:Add "Common Files Folder". 2:Add your want to register dll files into this folder. 3:Modify dll file's property "Register" to "vsdrfCOMSelfReg"

setting done.

after you install your project, you can find your common folder exist dll (like my path C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files)

You can find dll key has been registered in your regedit too.

If you uninstall your project, below info will been removed.

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