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Please excuse my ignorance.
Are activex dll's server side? Ie. If a person access a web page and it calls an activex dll do they have to have that dll on their personal computer or can it just be on the server.
I need to do a solution where the client doesn't have to have any special software on their computer. I want the server to handle it for them.
Thanks again.
ActiveX DLL's are In-Process components, thus these must be running on the same computer as the client. However, you can access a DLL remotely, but it will 'Act' as an out-of process component. To answer your question, you do not have to have the dll installed on the clients machine. Do a search on MTS, which is an infrastructure application that manages components and transactions.
It sounds like you are creating an IIS application. Do not be allarmed by the sound. It is really simple.
This just means that you should be using ASP to access the functionality of the .dll component.
The component will reside on the server. The client would interact with this object through ASP pages. This can be extremely powerful. However, be vary carefull as to the functionality of the .dll.