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RegistrationClassContext Enumeration

Specifies the set of execution contexts in which a class object will be made available for requests to construct instances.

This enumeration has a FlagsAttribute attribute that allows a bitwise combination of its member values.

Namespace:  System.Runtime.InteropServices
Assembly:  mscorlib (in mscorlib.dll)
[FlagsAttribute]
public enum RegistrationClassContext
Member name Description
InProcessServer The code that creates and manages objects of this class is a DLL that runs in the same process as the caller of the function specifying the class context.
InProcessHandler The code that manages objects of this class is an in-process handler.
LocalServer The EXE code that creates and manages objects of this class runs on same machine but is loaded in a separate process space.
InProcessServer16 Not used.
RemoteServer A remote machine context.
InProcessHandler16 Not used.
Reserved1 Not used.
Reserved2 Not used.
Reserved3 Not used.
Reserved4 Not used.
NoCodeDownload Disallows the downloading of code from the Directory Service or the Internet.
Reserved5 Not used.
NoCustomMarshal Specifies whether activation fails if it uses custom marshaling.
EnableCodeDownload Allows the downloading of code from the Directory Service or the Internet.
NoFailureLog Overrides the logging of failures.
DisableActivateAsActivator Disables activate-as-activator (AAA) activations for this activation only.
EnableActivateAsActivator Enables activate-as-activator (AAA) activations for this activation only.
FromDefaultContext Begin this activation from the default context of the current apartment.

The values in the RegistrationClassContext enumeration are used in the classContext parameter of the RegisterTypeForComClients method. These values are the same as those defined in the COM CLSCTX enumeration, which is used as the dwClsContext parameter in calls to the COM API CoRegisterClassObject.

For more information about CoRegisterClassObject and the CLSCTX enumeration, see the MSDN library.

.NET Framework

Supported in: 4, 3.5, 3.0, 2.0

.NET Framework Client Profile

Supported in: 4, 3.5 SP1

Windows 7, Windows Vista SP1 or later, Windows XP SP3, Windows XP SP2 x64 Edition, Windows Server 2008 (Server Core not supported), Windows Server 2008 R2 (Server Core supported with SP1 or later), Windows Server 2003 SP2

The .NET Framework does not support all versions of every platform. For a list of the supported versions, see .NET Framework System Requirements.
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