Comments on: Register DLL – Calling RegSvr32 without MessageBoxes in PowerShell

By: Joel 'Jaykul' Bennett

Joel 'Jaykul' Bennett — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 02:50:05 +0000

Peter: what do mean? Yes, of course you can test the return code — that’s the whole point of this script…

By: Peter Nimmo

Peter Nimmo — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 17:21:40 +0000

Ah, but you can test the return code of regsvr32, for example it returns 3 if the file doesn’t exist

By: Nic Bedford

Nic Bedford — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 19:38:10 +0000

Thanks for the clarification Joel, I guessed I was missing something, but didn’t appreciate the subtlety of actually being able to access the return code

By: Joel 'Jaykul' Bennett

Joel 'Jaykul' Bennett — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 20:53:19 +0000

Calling regsvr32 with the /s silent switch does not do anywhere near the same thing — it just hides the message box entirely — you would have no idea if it worked or not. You could, of course, do that in PowerShell:

ls *.dll|%{regsvr32 /s $_}

The script I provided doesn’t have any pop-up MessageBoxes, but it does provide the results, including the appropriate error messages as console output, so you would know whether the registration succeeded or not, and if not, why.

By: Nic Bedford

Nic Bedford — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 20:10:17 +0000

I’m just getting into PowerShell, but this seems like a lot of work compared with the old cmd.exe way of achieving the same thing

C:\> for %i in (*.dll) do regsvr32 /s %i