Solving error MSB8011: Failed to register output

Question

A strange error:

error MSB8011: Failed to register output. Please try enabling Per-user Redirection or register the component from a command prompt wi

Answer 1

MSB8011 seems to be a generic error raised whenever regsvr32 encounters a problem. In my case, regsvr32 exited with code 4 when Per-User Registration was set to "Yes", but the DLL I was building did not define a DllInstall entry point.