Use ActiveX components without registration
Many applications use ActiveX and COM components. But all ActiveXs should be registered in the system registry to be used properly. This is a problem:
- registration in the registry requires admin rights
- sometimes registration influences to other applications
for example, your application uses Flash 7, but another application requires Flash 9 - your application should register an ActiveX at startup and unregister it when ActiveX is not needed anymore
for example, your application is so-called portable application
How to solve the task using BoxedApp?
BoxedApp provides a very interesting function BoxedAppSDK_RegisterCOMLibraryInVirtualRegistry. This function does the same things as regsvr32 does. BoxedAppSDK_RegisterCOMLibraryInVirtualRegistry loads a file (virtual or real) and calls DllRegisterServer. What’s important: all changes of the registry save in virtual registry, not real!
So, when an application creates an ActiveX, COM subsystem finds all what it needs in virtual registry.
As a result, the system registry remains unchanged, and COM subsystem “thinks” that the ActiveX is really registered in the system.
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