The Essentials of COM – Part 2

Registration

Kenny Kerr
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http://kennykerr.ca
 The Registry

 HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
 Software
 Classes

 CLSID
 {GUID}
 {GUID}
 …
 Interface
 {GUID}
 {GUID}
 …

 HKEY_CURRENT_USER
 Software
 Classes
 …
 DLLs and Self-Registration

 DllRegisterServer

 DllUnregisterServer

 RegSvr32.exe <file name>

Demo: DLLs and Self-Registration
 Transactions

 The registry is a database

 Atomic, consistent, isolated, and durable (ACID)

 Kernel Transaction Manager

Demo: Transactions and Handles
 The Registry API

 RegCreateKeyTransacted & RegOpenKeyTransacted

 RegSetValueEx & RegDeleteTree

 RegCloseKey & unique_handle

Demo: Opening or Creating Registry Keys
Table-Driven Registration
Demo: Table-Driven Registration
 Registration-Free Activation

 Application and assembly manifests

 Allows “XCOPY” deployment

Demo: Registration-Free Activation
 Summary

 The registry

 Self-registration

 Kernel Transaction Manager

 Registration-free activation