title: Registration-Free Activation of COM Components
body: <p>Does this example for Registration Free Activation still work in VS2008 and Windows Vista/7?
  <a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms973913.aspx" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms973913.aspx</a></p>
  
  <p>I haven't been able to get it to work.  But I was able to use the Isolated COM setting to make an embedded manifest load an OCX file as I wanted.  Registering with regsvr32 worked also, so something with the manifest isn't working.  I believe the GUIDs are correct.</p>