General COM Question (IIS)

[jarrodj]

Can someone please tell me - if theoretically, should a activex dll that works correctly when referenced from a Standard.exe also work as COM object accessed from active server pages on IIS?

Are there any circumstances when they wont??

Thanks

[Mark Sreeves]

I've never had any problems!

Have you ever had any sucess?

How are you doing it?

[jarrodj]

Hi Mark, Thanks for your reply.

The basic idea was to use the faxcom.dll in Windows 2000 to allow staff to send faxes via our company intranet.

The code works from a standard exe and also from an exe that references the com object.

This is the error that is returned from my ASP page:

Error Type:
DCGIntranet (0x80004005)
Method '~' of object '~' failed
/netfax/Default.asp, line 13

Below is the code for the COM object and also the ASP page.

Thanks for your time

Jarrod


'************* Code From COM ************************
Public Function NetFax(ServerName, FileName, FaxNumber, RecipientTitle, RecipientName, RecipientCompany, RecipientOfficePhone, SenderTitle, SenderName, SenderFax, SenderCompany, SenderOfficePhone)

Dim FaxServer As Object
Dim FaxDoc As Object
Set FaxServer = CreateObject("FaxServer.FaxServer")

FaxServer.Connect (ServerName)

'Create Document to Fax
Set FaxDoc = FaxServer.CreateDocument(FileName)

'Fax Recipient Details
FaxDoc.RecipientTitle = RecipientTitle
FaxDoc.RecipientName = RecipientName
FaxDoc.RecipientCompany = RecipientCompany
FaxDoc.RecipientOfficePhone = RecipientOfficePhone
FaxDoc.FaxNumber = FaxNumber

'Fax Sender Details
FaxDoc.SenderTitle = SenderTitle
FaxDoc.SenderName = SenderName
FaxDoc.SenderFax = SenderFax
FaxDoc.SenderCompany = SenderCompany
FaxDoc.SenderOfficePhone = SenderOfficePhone

'Send Fax
Result = FaxDoc.Send()

'Disconnect from Faxserver
FaxServer.Disconnect

Set FaxServer = Nothing
Set FaxDoc = Nothing

End Function


'***************** CODE From ASP Page ***************

<%

Set objNetFax = Server.CreateObject("DCGIntranet.NetFax")
objNewFax = objNetFax.NetFax("\\Server", "\\Server\D\test.doc", "0 3257 4511", "Mr", "Smith", "DCG", "07 3257 4500", "Mr", "Jarrod Jones", "07 3257 4511", "DCG", "07 3257 4500")

%>

[Mark Sreeves]

Er...

are uyou sure you should be trying to do this:

objNewFax = objNetFax.NetFax(


There doesn't appear to be a return value from the NetFax function so I'm not sure what you're trying to assign to objNewFax....

[jarrodj]

Thanks Mark, I got it all working

Cheers

Jarrod

[nelson]

To follow up on this thread, I am trying to do almost the same thing except I am accessing faxcom.dll from a standard .exe (the VB app is CGI). The problem I am having is that whenever I try and do anything but connect or disconnect (I can read attributes of the server, ie: discoutstart time) I get this error:

Error -2147024894: Method '~' of object '~' failed

I will post code very similar to jarrod's code to make things easier. (it seems that whenver the FaxDoc.Send() is included, it causes that error, w/o that statement it works fine)

Sub Cgi_Main()
...
NetFax "\\ROMAN", "\\ROMAN\D\test.doc", "0 3257 4511", "Mr", "Smith", "DCG", "07 3257 4500", "Mr", "Jarrod Jones", "07 3257 4511", "DCG", "07 3257 4500"
...
End Sub

Public Sub NetFax(ServerName, FileName, FaxNumber, RecipientTitle, RecipientName, RecipientCompany, RecipientOfficePhone, SenderTitle, SenderName, SenderFax, SenderCompany, SenderOfficePhone)
On Error GoTo error_olemsg

Dim FaxServer As Object
Dim FaxDoc As Object
Set FaxServer = CreateObject("FaxServer.FaxServer")

FaxServer.Connect (ServerName)

'Create Document to Fax
Set FaxDoc = FaxServer.CreateDocument(FileName)

'Fax Recipient Details
FaxDoc.RecipientTitle = RecipientTitle
FaxDoc.RecipientName = RecipientName
FaxDoc.RecipientCompany = RecipientCompany
FaxDoc.RecipientOfficePhone = RecipientOfficePhone
FaxDoc.FaxNumber = FaxNumber

'Fax Sender Details
FaxDoc.SenderTitle = SenderTitle
FaxDoc.SenderName = SenderName
FaxDoc.SenderFax = SenderFax
FaxDoc.SenderCompany = SenderCompany
FaxDoc.SenderOfficePhone = SenderOfficePhone

'Send Fax
Result = FaxDoc.Send()

'Disconnect from Faxserver
FaxServer.Disconnect

Set FaxServer = Nothing
Set FaxDoc = Nothing

Exit Sub
error_olemsg:
Send "<br>"
Send "Error " & Str(Err) & ": " & Error$(Err)
Send "<br>"
Exit Sub

End Sub

[Edited by nelson on 04-07-2000 at 05:48 PM]