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<task id="GUID-B541BD01-29BE-4CB7-9420-ABEE0BDC9BA4" xml:lang="en"><title>Writing

a Standard Registration Resource File</title><shortdesc>For Symbian OS V9.1 and onwards, the name of the standard registration

resource file must be the same as that of the executable with <filepath>.rss</filepath> extension.

All the registration resource structure types are defined in <codeph>RegistryInfo.rh</codeph>.

This file has to be included in the registration resource file.  </shortdesc><prolog><metadata><keywords/></metadata></prolog><taskbody>

<steps id="GUID-4DD07DEC-6017-4237-BE46-1D69E5FBD744-GENID-1-10-1-11-1-1-8-1-4-1-5-1-4-1-5-1-4-1-3-1">

<step id="GUID-9A69E5AD-E938-4092-A8C2-CB65C37C8962-GENID-1-10-1-11-1-1-8-1-4-1-5-1-4-1-5-1-4-1-3-1-1"><cmd>Define a single <codeph>REGISTRY_INFO</codeph> resource.

 </cmd>

</step>

<step id="GUID-0711500A-DB15-4AF2-86E7-07751B7D0CE6"><cmd>Set the dll_uid

to the DLL's UID.  </cmd>

</step>

<step id="GUID-73CC8347-CE83-43E4-81D2-FFB10C058E5B"><cmd>Set interfaces member

to be an array of <codeph>INTERFACE_INFO</codeph> resources.  </cmd>

<info><p>Each <codeph>INTERFACE_INFO</codeph> resource defines registration

information for implementations of the interface identified by interface_uid

member. The information takes the form of an array of <codeph>IMPLEMENTATION_INFO</codeph> resources.

 </p></info>

</step>

<step id="GUID-BB178AA4-0BE4-4DC2-9A4E-28D8AFEBA2A2"><cmd>Each <codeph>IMPLEMENTATION_INFO</codeph> resource

declares the properties of a single implementation. It has five members:  </cmd>

<substeps id="GUID-D09853C8-5054-4D4D-AE76-E5787263F02B">

<substep id="GUID-5F45453F-4D21-4983-ABA8-DB2F025A9326"><cmd><codeph>implementation_uid</codeph>:

An unique identifier for the implementation.  </cmd>

<info><p>For this value, use a new UID allocated by Symbian Signed. The allocated

value can be from the protected or non-protected range of UIDs.  </p></info>

</substep>

<substep id="GUID-2AC39D58-D817-43D4-8130-F012C7CBA9A9"><cmd><codeph>version_no</codeph>:

The version of the interface implementation.  </cmd>

</substep>

<substep id="GUID-4F545F1B-AD20-4EFC-B09A-6F7E19E27B75"><cmd><codeph>display_name</codeph>:

The external name of the implementation. </cmd>

</substep>

<substep id="GUID-078E43CD-C238-4361-86D7-5372CA9ACD23"><cmd><codeph>default_data</codeph>:

The data identifier field used by the resolver to determine if the implementation

matches a client request. </cmd>

</substep>

<substep id="GUID-CE0BE654-08E5-4693-AF25-9098080640B9"><cmd><codeph>opaque_data</codeph>:

A binary data field that can contain additional data. This additional data

can be used by the custom resolvers. </cmd>

</substep>

</substeps>

</step>

</steps>

<example><p>The following example depicts a resource registration file for

an implementation collection with two implementations.</p><codeblock xml:space="preserve">// 10009DB1.RSS

//

#include "RegistryInfo.rh"

RESOURCE REGISTRY_INFO theInfo

{

dll_uid = 0x10009DB1;

interfaces = 

	{

	INTERFACE_INFO

		{

		interface_uid = 0x10009DC0;

		implementations = 

			{

			IMPLEMENTATION_INFO

				{

				implementation_uid = 0x10009DC3;

				version_no = 1;

				display_name = "Implementation name 1";

				default_data = "text/wml";

				opaque_data = "some extra data";

				},

			IMPLEMENTATION_INFO

				{

				implementation_uid = 0x10009DC4;

				version_no = 1;

				display_name = "Implementation name 1";

				default_data = "text/xml||Type of data handled";

				opaque_data = "";

				}

			};

		}

	};

}</codeblock></example>

</taskbody><related-links>

<link href="GUID-64D62DD8-3D9C-4659-9658-C0B4D74D6E69.dita"><linktext>Writing

the Version 2 Registration Resource File</linktext></link>

<link href="GUID-39186342-960A-46A4-BC35-851F53665FA8.dita"><linktext>Writing the

Version 3 Registration Resource File</linktext></link>