beginner with COM

[geoffrey525]

I have experience with ASP and VBScript and some basic VB. I would really like to learn to write components to use in MTS, but I'm not sure where to start. It seems like there are so many branches of VB one could take, and to get to a particular destination I would think one would have to focus on a particular portion of VB. So, can anyone direct me as to which portions of VB are important to learn to apply it to internet apps and MTS to help me learn to build COM objects? Thanks!

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Geoffrey,

You are correct. VB is very diverse in the sense of specialization. However, if you like to know more about COM, I can tell you a couple books that you should get. The VB COM and the VB6 MTS, both from Wrox. They are very good books and might give you some ideas on where to start.

Just a little word of caution on the VB6 MTS book. Keep in mind that it was written before MTS was actually released, therefore, there might be a little discrepancies. But it is still a good book.

Hope this helps.

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[geoffrey525]

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Well, actually I purchased both wrox books. I found the VB COM book very confusing and the MTS book is starting to get pretty confusing. There is one question though that I have regarding MTS. I'm running win2k and from what I've read, MTS comes with IIS5 which I have installed. However, I can't find any mention of MTS anywhere and the exercise in the MTS book requires a certain .dll from MTS which I can't find on my system. I've checked the add ons from my win2k disc, but I don't see it there either. Am I missing something somewhere or do I have to download it from MS? Thanks!

[Clunietp]

Microsoft has integrated COM and MTS and renamed it COM+ in Windows 2000.

COM+ = MTS + COM

[geoffrey525]

That has nothing to do with my question.