Visual Studio - Referencing COM components versioning problem

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Referencing COM components versioning problem

groups.google.com.josh@hidley.com

2005-08-25, 3:57 am

We have a C# project in VS.NET 2003 which references a COM DLL which we
created using VB6. This VB6 project uses binary compatibility. We
generated a primary interop assembly (PIA) for this COM DLL.

Here's the problem: If I add an interface to the VB6 project, and
compile a new DLL, the VB6 compiler increments the type library
version. I un-RegAsm the original PIA and I generate a new PIA from the
COM DLL without problems. Now if I open the VS.NET project, its
reference to the COM library is broken because VS.NET references the
COM library by its GUID and TypeLib version.

Is there any way to tell VS.NET to reference the COM library just by
GUID?

Thanks in advance for any help,

Josh

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