>thanks for that Naomi. looks like that's useful code. by the way it just occured to me what if I redistrubute regasm.exe as part of our application and put it in our application folder. this way no searching for file is required.
>any ideas/comments on this.

I don't know if you can re-distribute regasm and could it cause DLL Hell or not. I guess you may try, sounds like a workable idea.