I've successfully created a DLL containing a web user control, referenced it by other projects on the same developer workstation, and published it to our production IIS server. Other developers on my team now wish to reference the same user control.

I vaguely recall in the days of "DLL hell" that it was necessary to register DLLs using regasm32. What do I have to do in the .NET world to share this control with other programmers without requiring they compile the DLL on their own machine so VS registers it? Please tell me there's a simpler method to do this now!

I have to think I'm missing something obvious, because "DLL hell" is clearly preferable to the complete inability to register user controls on a developer's w/s without having to compile it in VS first?

Figured out a less than perfect way to do this:

1. Create a new folder on the IIS server and save the DLL to it. You cannot publish server controls despite the fact they are installed on the server. Go figure.
2. In the consuming project, select Add Reference (not a .COM or Web reference - just Add Reference!)
3. Select the Browse tab, browse to the shared folder where the DLL was saved, select the DLL, and click OK.
4. Then you also have to add the control to the toolbar by right clicking it, selecting "Choose Tool" and browsing to the shared folder where the Control resides yet again.

Then you can drag the shared control from the toolbar to the page.

It also appears to be necessary to remove and re-add the reference to every project using it whenever the control changes, so be sure it works correctly before adding it to umpteen different projects!