#1 Burning Software

Thanks. Knowing which files to install is a big help. In my case I will only need the StarBurnX and Interop2 DLLs.

However, I'm still wondering where to install them. Suppose there is another application on the computer that uses StarBurnX. If I install StarBurnX.dll in my own application directory and register it, the COM-related registry entries will now point to my "private" copy of StarBurnX.dll (which might be a different version than what the other app installed). If my app is then uninstalled and StarBurnX is removed, the other app will be broken. Do I understand this correctly?

It seems like there should be a special directory for shared COM DLLs like StarBurnX and that StarBurnX.dll should be reference-counted.

Hello,

1) You will overwrite StarBurnX registration information on the users's computer if your version of StarBurnX will be the same as version installed on user's computer. During installation of your product you can determine the installed version of StarBurnX by means of the information from Windows registry:

For the Win64 you should look into the key - HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Classes\TypeLib\{93CBA48A-1C58-4648-B22D-8F3588CB8D95} where is the {93CBA48A-1C58-4648-B22D-8F3588CB8D95} is the StarBurnX TypeLIB UID.

2) Concerning to the "COM shared folder" - i think you could install your StarBurnX DLL into the Windows system directory (Windows/System32). If the DLLs is already present on the user's machine, the setup program should compare its version with the version you are installing.

3) As far as I know the COM registration information is NOT the "reference-counted"!

4) Be informed that you can activate ( create ) COM object by specifying the version of its object!! Possible to have registered the several different version of COM ( StarBurnX ) component.

I hope this information will help you!

Regards,

Dmitry

Rocket Division Software