Passing objects from ASP pages

[tjpoole]

I am trying to pass a dictionary object to a COM object from an ASP page. Is this possible?

[mlewis]

Should be.

Is there a specific problem?

Try posting some code to look at...

[mlewis]

The problem is that your COM object is in a different process (task) than IIS. You can set the COM object to run in-process, see the MSDN (msdn.microsoft.com) website for more details, I forget all the stuff you have to do with MTS; also, to make an in-process server that works with IIS, you have to have the COM component inside of an ActiveX EXE.

[MrGTI]

You can't pass an object to a DLL where the DLL says it will recieve it as ByRef. Only if the DLL says as variant will it work (i think).

My brother had this problem yesterday.

[tjpoole]

I've tried it as Variant when passing an array and it doesn't like that either.

mlewis - I thought a dll does run in process?

[MrGTI]

Here's what little brother found - Microsoft ByRef (http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q244/0/12.ASP). Hope that helps.

[mlewis]

Argh yes, DLLs inprocess, EXEs outofprocess; sorry I seem to have been Process Dyslexic for a second there :)


Anyway, you still have to jump through a lot of MTS/IIS hoops for it to work.

MSDN (see the link I posted above) has info on registering MTS components.