Upgrade Issue: Register fails after build ATL project under VC8/VS2005

Issue:

An ATL/COM project can be built and registered successfully under VC7.1/VS2003. After upgrade this project to VC8/VS2005 using the upgrade wizard, it can be built successfully but can not register. Regsvr32 returns nothing for debug version and no sense message for release version.

Root Cause:

After tried many approaches for 3 days, I found the root cause is the item named "_AFX_NO_OCC_SUPPORT" in the preprocessor definitions. This item is ok with VC7.1, but it will make the COM fails to register after built with VC8.

Solution:

Just remove this item from preprocessor definitions. It may causes the compile error of "C2371: 'WCHAR' : redefinition; different basic types c:/program files/microsoft visual studio 8/vc/platformsdk/include/odbcss.h 430 ", if you are using the mentioned odbcss.h file in your project. I have solved this problem by copy this file to my local project folder, and comment out the line of "typedef char DBCHAR;". If I find any better solution, I'll update this article.