How do I register a DLL from VB?

[Anders Englund]

How do I do that? I'm building an auto update feature for my program, and after download, the dll's must be registered. I could use a shell command to use regsvr32 but then I'd get those darn "DLL registered successfully" messages.
What I would need is some function where you'd supply the full path and name of the DLL to register it, since I can't know now what all the dll's will be called.

//Anders

Refer to this thread: http://forums.vb-world.net/showthrea...threadid=21797

[Anders Englund]

Ok, but I don't know the names of the variables on forehand. Will it work to replace the "MyDll.Dll" thingies with variables? I'm not that good with API's... yet.

//Anders

Yeah, you just replace "MyDll.Dll" with the Dll that you want to register.

[Anders Englund]

Hmm, not exactly what I meant. I'll explain further.
When compiling the program, I don't know the names of the DLL's to be registered. I tried substituting the "MyDll.dll" for a variable but that doesn't work.
Do you understand what I mean? English is nit my first language...

//Anders

I think I understand..you want to register a bunch of Dlls?

You can use RegSvr32.exe and make it silent so that there are no messages.

Here are its options:

Usage:  regsvr32 [/u] [/s] [/n] [/i[:cmdline]] dllname
/u - Unregister server
/s - Silent; display no message boxes
/c - Console output
/i - Call Dllinstall passing it an optional [cmdline]; when used /u calls dll unistall
/n - do not call DllRegisterServer; this option must be used with /i

And shell it:

Shell "regsvr32 /s "C:\Windows\System\Mydll.dll", vbHide

To list all dlls from the Window\System folder:

Dim FileFinder
FileFinder = Dir("C:\Windows\System\*.dll")
Do Until FileFinder = ""
List1.AddItem LCase(FileFinder)
FileFinder = Dir
Loop

[Anders Englund]

Lovely! That's what I need. Thanks!

//Anders