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What regsvr32 exe in .NET and what is the use of it?

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What regsvr32 exe in .NET and what is the use of it?
posted Oct 3, 2013 by Atul Mishra

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Regsvr32 is the command-line tool that registers .dll files as command components in the registry. You can use gacutil.exe also when you used a strong name key pair else use regsvr32. Both are used only to register dll files and not com components

answer Oct 3, 2013 by Sunil Maturi
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regsvr32 is windows equivalent to ldconfig in Linux. It is a command-line utility in Microsoft Windows operating systems for registering and unregistering DLLs and ActiveX controls in the Windows Registry.

One important fact is to use regsvr32, a DLL must export the functions DllRegisterServer and DllUnregisterServer

Example
regsvr32 abc.dll for registering a file
regsvr32 /u abc.dll for unregistering a file

answer Oct 3, 2013 by anonymous
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