By Adam Nagy
As mentioned in this article, you can use the Inventor View Control in a registry-free way by embedding a manifest file that specifies the InventorViewControl as a dependency.
My InventorViewCtrl.ocx.manifest looks like this:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
<assembly
xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v1" manifestVersion="1.0">
<file name="InventorViewCtrl.ocx" hashalg="SHA1">
<comClass
clsid="{A6336AB8-D3E1-489A-8186-EE40F2E027FE}"
tlbid="{E841EDA5-E54F-4492-B514-928713E659C7}"
description="Autodesk Inventor View Control">
</comClass>
<typelib
tlbid="{E841EDA5-E54F-4492-B514-928713E659C7}"
resourceid="1" version="1.0" helpdir="" flags="HASDISKIMAGE">
</typelib>
</file>
<comInterfaceExternalProxyStub
name="_DInventorViewControl"
iid="{C767F39D-57B9-4163-ABAD-14FAE0F74D21}"
tlbid="{E841EDA5-E54F-4492-B514-928713E659C7}"
proxyStubClsid32="{00020420-0000-0000-C000-000000000046}">
</comInterfaceExternalProxyStub>
<comInterfaceExternalProxyStub
name="_DInventorViewControlEvents"
iid="{D7A91BA8-19C0-4E1B-99D7-F6B10448EF3B}"
tlbid="{E841EDA5-E54F-4492-B514-928713E659C7}"
proxyStubClsid32="{00020420-0000-0000-C000-000000000046}">
</comInterfaceExternalProxyStub>
</assembly>
Inside the Project Settings you can specify to embed this manifest:
Here is the full source code of the sample project:
https://github.com/adamenagy/InventorView-FileDisplay-.NET-4.0-RegFree
