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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?


.NET Runtime Embedding


If you are into developing .NET applications, you are likely to know that it requires .NET Runtime to have the success running them. If the runtime suite is not installed, whenever the program attempts to launch, it shows an ugly messagebox notifying you that mscoree.dll could not be found… (click to read more)


.NET Applications: How to Hide Assemblies And Unmanaged DLLs


One interesting task I’ve heard from one of our first customers is hidding assemblies and unmanaged DLLs. The target language is C#. Let’s explore how to solve this task with BoxedApp SDK…(click to read more)