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i guess if you are not referencing any of the .net framework, then it doesn't have to be installed on the machine running your code.

thanks for the code, but i hacked out something very simple .. i just needed to register a .dll file

# include <iostream.h>
# include <windows.h> 
 
int main()
{  	
  system("regsvr32 \"C:\\Program Files\\program\\file.dll\"");
  
  return 0;
}

now i want to build in some errors in case that their install directory was different than the default path.

thanks for the input =)