Compiling Component and Keeping the Registry Clean

[bthoen]

I have been experimenting with building a custom component in VB6, but I notice that each time I change it and recompile, there sometimes appears to be more records in the Registry related to it than before.

Is this normal? Do you get a new record added to the Registry every time you rebuild a component? How do I clean out the obsolete records without hosing my machine?

[Dave Sell]

Originally posted by bthoen
I have been experimenting with building a custom component in VB6, but I notice that each time I change it and recompile, there sometimes appears to be more records in the Registry related to it than before.

Is this normal? Do you get a new record added to the Registry every time you rebuild a component? How do I clean out the obsolete records without hosing my machine?

Read my article, "10 easy steps to COM & DCOM Clean Living":

http://www.vbforums.com/showthread.p...hreadid=306375