CDONTS in VB

[iforsyth]

I'm not really clear on how to do development using CDONTS, and NOT CDO, in VB. It seems as if you can only use this technology with ASP, where scripts execute on the server, and not in a VB application.

I would like to use the CDONTS objects for development on my local NT workstation in conjunction with our NT Server, but I can't seem to pick up a reference to the server's dll on my local machine, e.g.

Set objSendMail = CreateObject("CDONTS.NewMail")

fails, UNLESS I do my development on the NT Server where I have the CDONTS .dll registered.

I don't mind running the completed program on the Server, but do I have to do all of my development on the Server? Kinda inconvenient.

The CDO download from Microsoft only installs CDO, and not CDONTS!



[Edited by iforsyth on 08-22-2000 at 12:05 PM]

[iforsyth]

I managed to compile and deploy an app using CDONTS by registering the server's cdonts.dll on my local workstation with regsrv32, compiling, moving the app to the server to run, running the app at the Server.

This really seems backwards. It seems to me that most developers would want to test a CDONTS app at their workstation before migrating it to the Server.