Is there a possibility, in any language (c/c++/c#,VB etc I DONT CARE) to export all the COM Registration information (such as clsid, progid, typelib, interface, appid etc)? Or do you know a reliable tool that exports that information including all of the 32 bit and 64 information?
Basically what I wanna do is what regsvr32 does but "in a file" and not write it to the registry. The solution can be a API-Call or Assembly class OR ANYTHING that supports me by doing this or it can be a tool where you are able to export the infos to a file. Please be aware that the tool, if so, should do this for COM as well as for interop assemblies. (I am not interessted in wisecomcaputure or the equivalent of adminstudio)
For clarification my point is here: I am a setup engineer. I basically want to know a way to get all the registration information of a COM or an Interop Object that's normally placed in the registry by calling regsvr32.
I am very glad of any help or hints
Eliane
There is a little-known but very handy API: RegOverridePredefKey. It allows to do exactly what you're looking for:
The
RegOverridePredefKeyfunction is intended for software installation programs. It allows them to remap a predefined key, load a DLL component that will be installed on the system, call an entry point in the DLL, and examine the changes to the registry that the component attempted to make. The installation program can then write those changes to the locations intended by the DLL, or make changes to the data before writing it.
Follow the docs for further details. Once you have re-mapped the HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT key and called the COM server's DllRegisterServer, use RegSaveKey to save the re-mapped key to a file, process the file and change the mapping back to HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT.