DLL Registration Fails with Exit Code 5 After Upgrading Platform Toolset to v142 in Visual Studio 2019

[Windows Server]

I'm upgrading a C++ project from Visual Studio 2012 to Visual Studio 2019, changing the Platform Toolset from v110 to v142. The project builds successfully, but during registration of a DLL, I encounter the following error:The command "regsvr32 /s /c "Path/dll"error MSB3075: :VCEnd" exited with code 5. Please verify that you have sufficient rights to run this command.When attempting to manually register the DLL via an elevated command prompt, I get this error:The DLL is loaded, but registration failed with exit code 0x80029C4A. What I’ve tried:Checked Dependencies: Ran Dependency Walker t

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