>I like the decisiveness of your response. Thanks for the input. What I'm trying to figure out is how one knows whether such an object is the SELF-registering type. Does that make any sense? I'm using InstallShield to distribute an application of mine and you have to say whether a DLL or OCX you're installing is self-registering or not, and shared or not.
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>(Maybe I should call InstallShield but wanted to make sure I knew what I was talking about.)
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>Any help helps.
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>Thx.
Ernie,

Unless your DLL or OCX can register itself, meaning, create its own registration entries in the client system's registry, with appropriate GUID's (as in a .VBR file) do NOT choose this option in Installshield. 'Shared' means if your DLL is compiled as 'shared' when you built it, ie, it can only be instantiated once on a client machine. If that's not the case, don't choose this option either.