Working with Component Services

[morphman2000]

I've created a class. For debugging-reasons, I first started an standard EXE project and added a Class module. After finishing my Class I copied the class-code into an ActiveX-Dll and compiled it. When I use it as a Reference.... no problem, but now this:

I want to distribute my Dll as a Class on MTS-Component services. Well, did that, worked fine. I got a summary of all the methods in my class-dll. But now, I want to go programming with that class, distributed in MTS.

I have tried this(and several other options):

  Dim objObject as Object
  Set objObject = CreateObject("Name.DllName","Server")

but when I want to work with it,
1: I won't get a drop-down-box with all the methods, which you will get if you use the dll as a reference.
2: I am getting errors, over and over again. For example, when my method parses a Recordset, I want to place that in a local recordset, but it gives me the error: Object variable or with block not set. Very strange, cause I did everything the same as in the Debug-program, except my dll isn't local, but it's on an MTS.

What am I doing wrong? Does someone has any experience with component services?

I hope you understand what I mean, because my technical english isn't so good...

tnx a lot!

[jim mcnamara]

Basic COM heuristic -

A really good in-process COM object usually does not work in MTS.
You need to learn about marshaling parameters to port to DCOM.

The programmers at Microsoft who work on COM/MTS are required to read:

Programming Distributed Applications with COM+ and Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0

[morphman2000]

Does someone has an anwser which really helps me?

Links?
MSDN Links?
Samples?

Tnx....