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Problem registering a dll - Access Denied

When trying to run regasm in Win2008 Server:

regasm "C:\Program Files\FooProg\Bar.dll" /tlb:"C:\Program Files\FooProg\Bar.tlb"

I get the following error:

RegAsm : error RA0000 : An error occurred while saving the exported type library: Access is denied. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80070005 (E_ACCESSDENIED))

what does this mean

Solution

  • The account under which you run regasm doesn't have rights to write to C:\Program Files\FooProg\ and that's why regasm fails to write the .tlb. Run regasm under an account with administrator priviledges.