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Deploying Tridion COM dlls should be carried out in the following sequences. I believe this is common process for any COM deployment so this utility is not restricted only to Tridion but here I’m specifically talking about Tridion Services.

1) Shut down Tridion Content Manager

2) Copy the dlls into <<Tridion bin location>>

3) Start Tridion Content Manager

We were doing these each actions manually since we are working on remote environment. If you are working on Tridion COM assemblies like tridion event systems, you might need to deploy the dlls frequently during development phase.

This can be done manually but since they are frequent actions, I wanted to automate this process. After few hours of coding I’ve written a custom utility which will perform this deployment activities.

COM Deployer.zip can be downloaded from this link.

It has the following files…

1) COMDeployer.exe

2) COMDeployer.exe.config

3) Interop.COMAdmin.dll

The only place where user should make change is config file.

<appSettings>
<!--COM Service Name ex) "Tridion Content Manager" -->
<add key="application" value="Tridion Content Manager"/>
<!--Server name or IP where COM services are installed -->
<add key="server" value="192.168.0.2"/>
<!--Source file location (local/remote shared path), including file name & use ; to include multiple files-->
<add key="sourceFiles" value="D:\TridionPOC\evntSystem.dll "/>
<!--Target file location (local), without file name-->
<add key="targetLocation" value="D:\Training"/>
</appSettings>



 Prerequisite:

1) .Net framework 3.0 or higher

2) User must have admin rights

3) Tool must run on Tridion Server

Sad thing is that I developed this utility after we had completed our project . I’ll share the source code details of this utility later.