Registering DLL's in Remote Host.

Registering DLL's in Remote Host.

Registering DLL's have always been a nightmare to all the programmers who have to work with remote webservers.  Its even horrible with servers having customized security settings. Every time the the Server adminstrator have to be pinged to register / unregister dlls.

An easy work  around to this problem is to use ASP pages to register / unregister the dlls.The key to this operation is to use the RUN method of the WSH WshShell class.

Following is a simple asp page using run method to register Dlls.

 <%
                Dim strPageName
                strPageName = "Reg.asp"
                if Request.Form("SUBMIT") = "" Then
                                Response.write "<CENTER><FORM ACTION=""" & strPageName & """ METHOD=POST>"
                                Response.write "<INPUT TYPE=TEXT NAME=FILEPATH SIZE=120>Full Path/Filename to DLL to be registered/un registerd<BR>"
                                Response.write "<INPUT TYPE=CHECKBOX NAME=ACTIONTYPE CHECKED>Check to Register; Uncheck to Unregister<BR>"
                                Response.write "<INPUT TYPE=SUBMIT NAME=SUBMIT VALUE=SUBMIT></CENTER>"
                                Response.write "</FORM>"
                     else

                                 Set objFileSystem = Server.CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
                                strPath = objFileSystem.GetSpecialFolder(1) & "\REGSVR32.EXE /s "
                                Set objWshShell =CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
                                strRun = "CMD /C " & strPath & " /u "
                                if Request.Form("ACTIONTYPE")="on" then strRun = "CMD /C " & strPath

                              strReturn = objWshShell.Run(strRun & Request.Form("FILEPATH"), 1, True)

                              Set objFileSystem=Nothing
                              Set objWshShell = Nothing
                   end if
%>

 Copy the entire script above including the <% %> script delimiters, and paste it into Notepad and save it as "Reg.asp" on your server Now the only thing you have to know is the drive letter, path and name of the DLL.