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Asked: 2026-05-10T21:38:42+00:00

Here’s my problem: I have to call a web service with a secure header

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Here’s my problem: I have to call a web service with a secure header from a classic ASP page that returns a complex data type. For various reasons concerning a 3rd party tool it has to be classic ASP. We decided that I should create an external dll to do this – which I did (in c#) so it returns a dataset (Something ASP can understand). However now I need to expose that function to the ASP page. Because this is classic ASP I think the only straightforward way to do this is to expose this class library as a COM object. I need to know the down and dirty easiest way to accomplish this task. What do I have to do to my dll?

I have never created a COM object before only used. Somebody said my class has to be static and I can’t have a constructor. Is this true? Can someone layout the steps for me?

HELP! (o:

Edit: This specific problem is now solved however as Robert Rossney noted I can’t do anything with the DataSet in classic ASP. This has led me to post a second question here regarding implementing XmlTextWriter – Robert if you see this I think you could really help!

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  1. No, that (static/no ctor) isn’t true. Quite the opposite, in fact, since COM will need to create an instance! You simply need to make the class COM visible. Mainly, this is just adding some attributes, and registering it as a COM dll (regasm).

    http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/zsfww439.aspx

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