vb6 xcopy deployment

Question

Can any one tell me how to convert an legacy application which is vb6 ( COM dll\'s ocx and exes) to use Regfree COM .

I tried opening the dlls in visual studio and

Answer 1

MakeMyManifest is well spoken of as an automatic tool for creating manifests for VB6 projects, haven't tried it myself. DirectCOM also has fans, again I haven't tried it.

EDIT The MMM website is down. I see here that the author was having trouble with their hosting and has provided another location to get Make My Manifest - download it here.

There is a semi-automatic technique. You can create the manifests with Visual Studio 2008 (you can use a free version like Visual Basic Express Edition). Then make a couple of edits by hand to make the manifests suitable for use from VB6. See this section of this MSDN article for step-by-step instructions - ignore the rest of the article which is about ClickOnce.