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If you want to use advanced deployment technologies like ClickOnce or XCopy deployment as enabled by the .NET Framework, but you still need to deploy classic COM components written for example in Visual Basic 6.0 or using the Active Template Library (ATL), you can employ registration-free COM, that substitutes the system registry entries needed by classic COM components with a .manifest XML file stored in the same directory as the COM component. That's all.

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