hiya,
I wanted to know if anyone thought this was a potential troublesome situation....

I plan to have an ASP page do a Server.CreateObject to instantiate an InProc COM object [DLL].

A function of this DLL now instantiates Excel, which is an Out of Proc COM component [EXE].

So basically its ...

ASP[IIS4.0] -> DLL -> EXE ASP[IIS4.0] -> DLL -> EXE

I hear this is a no no with IIS??? i.e. one shouldn't be having Out of Proc components interacting with IIS?? is this correct? Are there are security implementations?

Can IIS crash frequently as a result of this??

Please note i plan to deploy this in a production environment. the config will be NT 4.0 + IIS 4.0

Any comments would be helpful...

Cheers
Gaurav