[AccessD] Checking For Lastest DLL

Paul,

You can't deregister/register ActiveX DLLs while your application is
running.
Therefore you have to write a utility to check presence/absence of the
certain version of .dlls,  which should start before your apps start.

You can use this code to collect DLL version info
http://www.devx.com/vb2themax/Tip/18983

The rest is clear.
Don't forget that project compatibility and even binary compatibility have
be preserved and that preserving binary compatibility for VB6 ActiveX DLLs
is a tough task sometimes - they get screwed such compatibility from time to
time...

Of you plan to use Win32 .DLLs ie. not ActiveX ones?

HTH,
Shamil

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Paul Hartland (ISHARP)" <paul.hartland at isharp.co.uk>
To: "'Access Developers discussion and problem solving'"
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Sent: Thursday, December 08, 2005 6:29 PM
Subject: [AccessD] Checking For Lastest DLL


> To all,
>
> I am starting to write a lot of DLL's which I can use in almost everyone
of
> my programs, which I stored in a centralised folder accessible to everyone
> and which currently have been registered to each workstation...As time
goes
> by I am going to be re-writing them and creating new ones, what I could do
> with is a function which when the users open one of my programs, checks
> which DLL's should be registered then checks that each one of them is the
> latest.  If they are missing any or they are using an older one to auto
> register them it C:\Windows\System32.
>
> Has anyone done this or can point me in the right direction to ho to go
> about this....
>
> Thanks in advance for any help.
>
> Paul Hartland
> Database Developer
>
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