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VB6 ActiveX exe appears in register and listed in COM references multiple times.

17-Dec-10 1:48

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QuickBooksDev12-Dec-10 2:24

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12-Dec-10 2:24

We have an COM Class (ActiveX exe) VB6 program that is in the Registry dozens if not hundreds of times to basically the same paths. 1. Our development compile output path and 2. the true target path in c:\Program Files (x86) where it should be. (There are many for each)

I do not know how it got in the registry so many times.

When we setup the program we do have the option to issue
C:\Program Files (x86)\path\TransMonitor.exe /UNREGSERVER
C:\Program Files (x86)\path\TransMonitor.exe /REGSERVER

What is causing so many to be registered?
So how do we get it so it doesn't register new ones?
How do we remove them quickly, safely and easily?

Even tried REGSVR32 /U C:\Program Files (x86)\path\TransMonitor.exe

The program does get invoked properly.

Ideas anyone???

Re: VB6 ActiveX exe appears in register and listed in COM references multiple times.

Luc Pattyn12-Dec-10 2:32

Re: VB6 ActiveX exe appears in register and listed in COM references multiple times.

12-Dec-10 2:32

do you unregister *before* you build the new version (i.e. in a pre-build step)?
if done after a new build, I expect unregistration to fail as it doesn't recognize the EXE.

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QuickBooksDev12-Dec-10 5:27

QuickBooksDev

12-Dec-10 5:27

Thanks

HHMMM!

Different Guids???
I didn't think that it would. Where are these Guids? I don't see them.

Can it be turned off? I only want the exe in program files to be registered to simulate the end user's environment.

I didn't know that the VB6 make (Alt,F, K) would register it so it was NOT unregistered first.

I am not getting any errors during the /REGSERVER or /UNREGSERVER.
(actually no response from either).
These are optional done by the setup program.

Since there are many entries for the program files then it is more then just the VB6 Make.

Re: VB6 ActiveX exe appears in register and listed in COM references multiple times.

Dave Kreskowiak12-Dec-10 6:43

Re: VB6 ActiveX exe appears in register and listed in COM references multiple times.

12-Dec-10 6:43

Read this[^].

And people wonder why I refuse to support VB6 anymore...

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QuickBooksDev12-Dec-10 9:22

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12-Dec-10 9:22

Thanks. I made it binary compatibible with the exe in the development lib.

I think most of MS programming languages are ugly.

Just the wording of almost everything is in-comprehensible. Takes so much to learn to lingo that there is no time for programming. (BTW: I am a dinosaur).

Re: VB6 ActiveX exe appears in register and listed in COM references multiple times.

LloydA11113-Dec-10 11:36

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13-Dec-10 11:36

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Re: VB6 ActiveX exe appears in register and listed in COM references multiple times.

Dave Kreskowiak12-Dec-10 4:30

12-Dec-10 4:30

It's in there dozens of times because VB6 is assigning new GUIDs to your component and registers it every time you compile it.

Unregistering the component won't work because the component no long contains the old GUIDs. You have to remove them manually or find a regsitry cleanup tool that will remove the orphaned entries.

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Set image transparent

IouriKa10-Dec-10 10:58

IouriKa

10-Dec-10 10:58

Does exist exe Application for make color transparent? For full color, not 256 colors.

If exist, so perhaps can be use this App from Vb6 App for transmit disc path of Image and set a color transparent and after this App save new Image as transparent with color transparent, obtain this Image.

What you think?

Thanks.

Henry Minute10-Dec-10 11:12

Henry Minute

10-Dec-10 11:12

Please do not keep posting what is essentially the same question.

Edit your original question.

Therefore, please decide which one you want to keep, edit it to reflect the current situation and then delete the other one.

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Dalek Dave10-Dec-10 15:48

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10-Dec-10 15:48

It is easy to make any colour transparent...

<br />
SetStyle(ControlStyles.SupportsTransparentBackColor, True)<br />

That should do it!

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Dave Kreskowiak10-Dec-10 16:47

10-Dec-10 16:47

Sadly for the OP, this won't work for him because he's using VB6, not VB.NET.

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Dalek Dave10-Dec-10 17:31

Dalek Dave

10-Dec-10 17:31

I cannot help him with his dinosaur problem then.

Luc Pattyn10-Dec-10 23:48

10-Dec-10 23:48

try {
    answer VB question
} catch(UnExpectedDinosaurException ude) {
    WTF
}

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thatraja11-Dec-10 0:21

thatraja

11-Dec-10 0:21

Luc Pattyn wrote:
try {
answer VB question
} catch(UnExpectedDinosaurException ude) {
WTF
}

VB
Try
answer VB 6 question
Catch ude As UnExpectedDinosaurException
WTF
End Try

FTFY

sorry Luc

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Luc Pattyn11-Dec-10 0:23

11-Dec-10 0:23

I would never write any code that lacks proper indentation. Mad | :mad:

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thatraja11-Dec-10 0:40

thatraja

11-Dec-10 0:40

sorry Luc I meant that because your code in c# but in vb forum so I was... Cool | :cool:

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Luc Pattyn11-Dec-10 0:42

11-Dec-10 0:42

No problem.

Smile | :)

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thatraja11-Dec-10 0:48

thatraja

11-Dec-10 0:48

cheers.

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Luc Pattyn11-Dec-10 1:03

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Keith Barrow11-Dec-10 2:32

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11-Dec-10 2:32

Dave Kreskowiak wrote:
he's using VB6

Didn't the support for that run out 2/3 years ago?

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Dave Kreskowiak11-Dec-10 4:29