Altova UModel 2024 Professional Edition

On a development PC, the COM registration takes place when you build the plug-in with Visual Studio; no manual registration is required under normal circumstances. If you intend to deploy a UModel IDE plug-in to a target client system, the target PC must have the following prerequisites:

 

UModel Professional or Enterprise edition

If the plug-in is written in .NET, the corresponding Microsoft .NET Framework.

 

On a deployment PC, the plug-in can be registered either manually or by the setup. For an example of a Visual Studio setup project, see the "Set Styles" Sample.

To register a UModel IDE plug-in manually:

1.On the Tools menu of UModel, click Customize.

2.Click the Plug-Ins tab.

3.Click Add Plug-In and browse for the .dll file of the plug-in.

 

You can check whether a UModel plug-in is registered by running regedit.exe at the command line. UModel maintains the following registry key for all registered plug-ins:

 

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Altova\UModel\PlugIns

 

All values of this key are treated as references to registered plug-ins and must conform to the following format:

 

Value name:

ProgID of the plug-in

Value type:

must be REG_SZ

Value data:

CLSID of the component

 

Every time UModel starts, the values of the "PlugIns" key are scanned, and the registered plug-ins are loaded. If you experience problems, check if the CLSID of your plug-in is correctly registered in the "PlugIns" key. If this is not the case, the name of your plug-in DLL was probably not sufficiently unique. Use a different name in this case.

 

Note:When deploying your UModel IDE plug-in on .NET framework versions prior to 2.0, the plug-in .dll file must either be installed in the same directory as UModel.exe or signed with a strong name key and registered into the global assembly cache (GAC).

 

Should you need to perform various assembly-related tasks manually, be aware of the following tools included in the .NET Framework SDK:

 

Assembly Registration Tool (regasm.exe). Use this to perform manual registration or de-registration of COM assemblies. For example, to maually register the UModelPlugLib.dll, use:

 

regasm.exe UModelPlugInLib.dll /codebase

 

Strong Name Tool (sn.exe). This can be optionally used to sign your assembly with a strong key, for example:

 

sn.exe -k MyKeyFile.snk

 

The key can also be generated from Visual Studio, see Sign the Plug-In With a Strong Name (Optional).

 

Global Assembly Cache Tool (gacutil.exe). Use this to add or remove an assembly from the Global Assembly Cache (GAC). For example, to add MyPlugin.dll to GAC, use:

 

gacutil.exe /i MyPlugin.dll

 

For more information about tools included in the .NET Framework, refer to the Microsoft documentation https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/framework/tools/.

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