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Server.CreateObject Failed

Written by Eric Smith, Northstar Computer Systems LLC

A user wrote in with the Server.CreateObject Failed error and asked me to help debug it. Unfortunately, that isn’t much to go on. However, there are a few things you can check immediately. First of all, make sure that the object you’re attempting to create is installed properly on the server and is registered (using RegSvr32.exe) on the server. Next, make sure you can create the object by trying to create the object in a separate file apart from the rest of your code. If you can, that should tell you that the problem is elsewhere. If you can’t create the object, then you have to trace the code inside the object, which is a more tedious and specific problem. However, if you have a well-coded object, you will probably find that registering and installing the component properly will take care of most of these problems for you.

Keywords: [ Errors ]

Publication Date: 10/1/2000