I will presume here that your operating system is Microsoft Windows. You will need a Java compiler, you can download Java Development Kit from Microsoft's SDK for Java web site. It contains the javareg.exe tool which we'll be needing later to register our java classes as COM components. Just make sure you download the latest version.
ActiveX DLLs are COMponents where you can hide your code,call it in your ASP and distribute with your application. In this article we shall discuss how to write functions in ActiveX Dlls and then call those same functions from ASP Scripts. We can write Dlls with C++, VC++, Delphi and Visual Basic. Here we can discuss How to with VB?
The interface I came up with, is to let the developer enter a directory path (C:inetpubwwwRootDLLs) of their choice, and then iterate thru all the files in that folder and it's subfolders building a list box of all DLL's found.
In this tutorial I will guide you step by step in creation of an ASP COM component using Microsoft Visual Basic. After this tutorial you will be able to develop on your own relatively simple components for use in your ASP pages.
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