How to register a .NET DLL using Inno Setup

Question

I have written a class library using Visual Studio 2010 C# to read hardware information of a Computer (e.g. HDD/SSD). I will use this dll to create an installer using InnoSetup

Answer 1

To do this, you MUST..

1) make sure that .net 4.0 is installed (not by default on most machines yet)

2) extract and register the DLL (you need to call regasm.exe on the extracted DLL)

This is a lot to do just to "GetDiskDriveInformation" as the very first step of the install.

It is far better to get the information natively in Inno or call a native DLL that doesn't have the prerequisites.