Thanks, saskuach,
I had seen this idea of registering the ocx on the fly through manipulating the manifest file. I even attempted to implement it but quickly came to the realization that I was in over my head. It would probably be entirely doable for someone with the right knowledge and tools but I was left scratching my head. It seemed that besides registering the ocx there were some other dlls/registry settings that the OCX needed to function properly. It also seemed that it might require recompiling the OCX which I don't think is possible in the express version of visual studio that I'm using.
I've settled on a stop gap solution of having my users separately and manually install the mapwingis ocx with an admin account. And then in their regular account install my clickonce application. It's admittedly a bit clunky but the first step only needs to be done once on each computer. I'm hoping that this auto registration will magically just work with the 5.0 release of the ocx, if not I might explore further.
I didn't keep the demo apps that I was exploring this through but the result was about like what yousuf14 is sharing.
Cheers,
Colin
I had seen this idea of registering the ocx on the fly through manipulating the manifest file. I even attempted to implement it but quickly came to the realization that I was in over my head. It would probably be entirely doable for someone with the right knowledge and tools but I was left scratching my head. It seemed that besides registering the ocx there were some other dlls/registry settings that the OCX needed to function properly. It also seemed that it might require recompiling the OCX which I don't think is possible in the express version of visual studio that I'm using.
I've settled on a stop gap solution of having my users separately and manually install the mapwingis ocx with an admin account. And then in their regular account install my clickonce application. It's admittedly a bit clunky but the first step only needs to be done once on each computer. I'm hoping that this auto registration will magically just work with the 5.0 release of the ocx, if not I might explore further.
I didn't keep the demo apps that I was exploring this through but the result was about like what yousuf14 is sharing.
Cheers,
Colin