Use Visual Studio Setup Project to automatically register and GAC a COM Interop DLL

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Gacutil.exe won’t be available on the target machine. Not a problem, MSI can get the job done. Right-click “File System on Target Machine”, Add, GAC. Right-click that added folder, Add, Project Output. That ensures the assembly is gac-ed.

It can also register the assembly like Regasm.exe does. Set the Register property of the project output reference to vsdrpCOM.

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