Question

I am debugging this Active X dll using the VB6 IDE. I can see the execution get as far as an attempt to GetObjectContext. This method always returns NOTHING.

This is happening on Windows 7 32 bit, IIS 7. (The application is working in other locations, one of which is Windows Server 2008 with IIS 7)

I have Googled extensively and found many references to this relating to COM+, but there is NO COM+ involved in my scenario. Just plain old Server.CreateObject from a registered dll.

I have ASP code as follows

SET objCalendar = Server.CreateObject("SSYSDEV.Calendar")
objCalendar.BuildCalendar("ADMINUSERS")
SET objCalendar = Nothing

The problem lines of the requested function in the dll are:

Dim objHttpRequest As ASPTypeLibrary.Request
Set objHttpRequest = GetObjectContext.Item("Request")

Any help or suggestions, as always, will be greatly appreciated.

I’m still getting over the shock of having to work with VB6 – I never thought it would happen! It’s like being dragged back to the dark ages, in a very rough fashion that’s causing blisters!

P.S. I have also set up a COM+ component and had the ASP get the object that way, GetObjectContext returns an empty object in this case, which has no ASP objects in it. So this is no help 🙁

Answer 1

I know this is a little late, but I had a similar problem and this solved it for me:

Thread: Problem accessing Request object via COM+

http://forums.iis.net/t/1146404.aspx

Summary: turn on ‘Allow IIS Intrinsic Properties’ in the COM+ component.