All articles with keyword "COM DCOM"
A Quick Way to Load Data
For COM objects that pull their data from a database, here's a quick way to load up the object with all of its fields. This code makes the assumption that each ...
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A Quick Way to Save Data
Here's a subroutine that uses ADO within a COM component to save data from the object back to a database recordset. This code makes the assumption that there is...
Accessing Client Machine Information
This question was raised by several readers: how can I get information about a user's login ID or machine name? The answer is that ASP, by itself, can't get it...
CreateObject Failed
In previous tips, we talked about problems dealing with CreateObject and how sometimes this error is due to the fact that the DLL is not registered correctly...
Introduction to COM Component Programming
One of the most feared topics in Visual Basic development is when more experienced developers start talking about COM component development. Any time the ter...
Using COM Objects from VB
A common question I get is about using COM objects or components within Visual Basic. Any object you use within Visual Basic (leaving out DCOM and COM+ for now)...
Using Variants in COM Components
If you’re building COM components for your web applications, remember that VBScript only knows one data type: Variant. This has two implications for COM compone...