RegFree InventorViewControl

By Adam Nagy

As mentioned in this article, you can use the Inventor View Control in a registry-free way by embedding a manifest file that specifies the InventorViewControl as a dependency.

My InventorViewCtrl.ocx.manifest looks like this:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?><assembly 
  xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v1" manifestVersion="1.0"><file name="InventorViewCtrl.ocx" hashalg="SHA1"><comClass 
      clsid="{A6336AB8-D3E1-489A-8186-EE40F2E027FE}"
      tlbid="{E841EDA5-E54F-4492-B514-928713E659C7}"
      description="Autodesk Inventor View Control"></comClass><typelib 
      tlbid="{E841EDA5-E54F-4492-B514-928713E659C7}"
      resourceid="1" version="1.0" helpdir="" flags="HASDISKIMAGE"></typelib></file><comInterfaceExternalProxyStub 
    name="_DInventorViewControl"
    iid="{C767F39D-57B9-4163-ABAD-14FAE0F74D21}"
    tlbid="{E841EDA5-E54F-4492-B514-928713E659C7}"
    proxyStubClsid32="{00020420-0000-0000-C000-000000000046}"></comInterfaceExternalProxyStub><comInterfaceExternalProxyStub 
    name="_DInventorViewControlEvents"
    iid="{D7A91BA8-19C0-4E1B-99D7-F6B10448EF3B}"
    tlbid="{E841EDA5-E54F-4492-B514-928713E659C7}"
    proxyStubClsid32="{00020420-0000-0000-C000-000000000046}"></comInterfaceExternalProxyStub></assembly>

Inside the Project Settings you can specify to embed this manifest: 

Here is the full source code of the sample project:
https://github.com/adamenagy/InventorView-FileDisplay-.NET-4.0-RegFree