Support Statement: Dealing with TypeLib Alias

Owned by Mark Juras
Last updated: Mar 25, 2018 by George Juras
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The web browser control is usually declared like this:

Begin SHDocVwCtl.WebBrowser WebBrowser1

However, the IDF is declared with ShdocVw instead of ShDocVwCtl:

<DescriptionFile>
<library id="ieframe.dll"
name="SHDocVw"
uuid="EAB22AC0-30C1-11CF-A7EB-0000C05BAE0B"
netVersion="1.1"
source="ieframe.dll"
location="%library%\Interop.SHDocVw.dll"
migName="SHDocVw"
type="LocalImport"
>

 

One way to deal with this is with a pre-edit, like this:

<Replace status="active" name="Deal with typelib alias">
<OldBlock><![CDATA[Begin SHDocVwCtl.WebBrowser]]></OldBlock>
<NewBlock><![CDATA[Begin SHDocVw.WebBrowser]]></NewBlock>
</Replace>


Can this be handled with registry type=progID?