Using a COM component from ASP

[Simon Harvey]

Hi everyone,

I don't know to much about asp in general, I'm an ASP.net developer, but my
boss wants me to find out the following:

Is it possible to use a COM component from ASP. We have a COM component that
allows us to interact with our bank for e-commerce style functionality. Our
current site uses ASP and we know need to integrate this COM component in
order to let us to some fancier stuff, such as on the fly fraud checking for
credit cards.

Can someone advise me if ASP can use COM components and what is involved?
Does anyone know of any good resources such as a tutorial?

Thanks everyone

Take care

Simon

[John Blessing]

"Simon Harvey" <si**********@the-web-works.co.uk> wrote in message
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Hi everyone,

I don't know to much about asp in general, I'm an ASP.net developer, but my boss wants me to find out the following:

Is it possible to use a COM component from ASP. We have a COM component that allows us to interact with our bank for e-commerce style functionality. Our current site uses ASP and we know need to integrate this COM component in
order to let us to some fancier stuff, such as on the fly fraud checking for credit cards.

Can someone advise me if ASP can use COM components and what is involved?
Does anyone know of any good resources such as a tutorial?

Thanks everyone

Take care

Simon

Yes. Register it with regsvr32, make sure the anonymous user (assuming you
are using anonymous authentication) has execute privs on it then e.g.:

set myObj = Server.CreateObject("mycomobjectname.myclass")
lret = myObj.myfunction (whatever,params,
you,have,defined,for,myfunction)
set myObj = Nothing


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you can access COM from .NET in same way as in generic ASP. just through
creating an instance with CreateObject.