Guess, i'm not clear in describing my problem. I have an unregistered COM DLL of ABC.exe application (my application) and another of my application XYZ.exe needs to create an object of ABC.exe at run time.

Untill now, everything was smooth coz ABC.exe was first installed on PC and over that XYZ.exe was supposed to run. Now neither of them has to be installed.
They both have to operate as stand alone i.e. without any registry interaction(reading registry woud do, motive being that non admin user should be able to "run" application if not install). Now since no registry writing has to happen so ABC.exe would not register its class id in regedit but it will indeed provide all relevant information in a say "registry.ini" file.

So now I want to create an object of ABC.exe within XYZ.exe. CreateObject would fail, so is there any alternative to it?

Searching through VBForums led me to this topic http://www.vbforums.com/showthread.p...t=createobject
my problem is more or less same. and the FAQ article mentioned http://www.vbforums.com/showpost.php...6&postcount=14 if useful for a registered application word/excel, anything for non registered application ??

Regards,

S. Saun

PS:
Apologies for post being too long or if im not in right forum, I thought this forum to be suitable for my post hence posted here.