[redhead]

Originally posted by sde
i want this app to catch the exceptions it throws out when it can't find the dll , or the dll successfully registers .. but i'm too n00b to know where to start.

#include <stdio.h>
# include <windows.h> 
#include <unistd.h>

int main()
{
   int ret=-5;
   if(!access("C:\\Program Files\\program\\file.dll", F_OK))
      ret=system("regsvr32 \"C:\\Program Files\\program\\file.dll\"");
   switch(ret)
   { 
     case -5:  
       printf("Dll file does not exist\n");
       return -1;
     case 0:
       printf("Successful return\n");
       return 0;
     default:
       printf("system call returned with errno: %s\n, WEXITSTATUS(ret));
       return ret;
   }
}

if it can't put find the dll, i'd like to allow the user to define the path to the file.

Dont know if there is any way to get a dialogue with the user without some interaction from the lower level runtime machine in .NET, else just make it a dos like app, asking on stdout and reading from stdin..