Supporting RegFree-COM in ActiveQt's container tools

With Windows XP and Vista, RegFree-COM allows the usage of COM controls that are not registered on the system. This requires the inclusion of some XML in the application's manifest file, but makes it unnecessary to actually register the COM servers (in fact, the entries in the manifest will override any information in the Windows registry).

The entries for the Windows Media Player, CLSID would be

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<assembly xsi:schemaLocation="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v1
assembly.adaptive.xsd" manifestVersion="1.0"
xmlns:asmv1="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v1"
xmlns:asmv2="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v2"
xmlns:dsig="http://www.w3.org/2000/09/xmldsig#"
xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v1"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">

<assemblyIdentity name="test.exe" version="1.0.0.0" type="win32" />
<file name="wmp.dll">
<typelib tlbid="

{6BF52A50-394A-11d3-B153-00C04F79FAA6}" version="1.0" helpdir="" resourceid="0" flags="HASDISKIMAGE" />
<comClass clsid="{6BF52A52-394A-11D3-B153-00C04F79FAA6}" threadingModel="Apartment" progid="WMPlayer.OCX.7" tlbid="{6BF52A50-394A-11d3-B153-00C04F79FAA6}

" />
</file>
</assembly>

There is no need for change in the code instantiating the COM objects, i.e. the following would work even without a registered media player as long as a test.exe.manifest is deployed together with test.exe:

QAxWidget *w = new QAxWidget("WMPlayer.OCX.7"); //

{6BF52A52-394A-11D3-B153-00C04F79FAA6}

w->setProperty("URL", "c:\\windows
clock.avi");
w->show();

It would be nice if the QAxContainer tools (i.e. testcon and the Designer integration, or dumpcpp) could generate the respective XML for any COM server. The server would have to be registered on the development machine of course.