ActiveX component can't create object

Hello,

I have asked that question recently but received no helpful replies, so I
thought I'd try again:

The COM objects my company sells are written in C++/ATL. When installed on
Windows 2003 64-bit and used in the ASP environment, the following error is
generated by a Server.CreateObject statement:

Microsoft VBScript runtime error '800a01ad'
ActiveX component can't create object

Now, this error is pretty common in 32-bit Windows, and is easily fixed by
adjusting permissions on the COM object's DLL. But in 64-bit Windows this
trick does not work anymore. Something else obviously needs to be done. But
what???

Any help will be greatly appreciacted.

-- Abe

Rick
Wed Mar 22 12:27:46 CST 2006

The lack of useful replies may be due to the fact that this is not a
programmer's newsgroup. There are a few that reply to programming
questions, but the focus of the is group is not programming.


Abe Simpson wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have asked that question recently but received no helpful replies, so I
> thought I'd try again:
>
> The COM objects my company sells are written in C++/ATL. When installed on
> Windows 2003 64-bit and used in the ASP environment, the following error is
> generated by a Server.CreateObject statement:
>
> Microsoft VBScript runtime error '800a01ad'
> ActiveX component can't create object
>
> Now, this error is pretty common in 32-bit Windows, and is easily fixed by
> adjusting permissions on the COM object's DLL. But in 64-bit Windows this
> trick does not work anymore. Something else obviously needs to be done. But
> what???
>
> Any help will be greatly appreciacted.
>
> -- Abe
>
>

Andre
Wed Mar 22 14:04:38 CST 2006

microsoft.public.vc.atl
microsoft.public.vc.language

Post the question there and you might get some help.
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"Abe Simpson" <abe@simpson.com> wrote in message
news:uBQd3gdTGHA.2156@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
> Hello,
>
> I have asked that question recently but received no helpful replies, so I
> thought I'd try again:
>
> The COM objects my company sells are written in C++/ATL. When installed on
> Windows 2003 64-bit and used in the ASP environment, the following error
> is generated by a Server.CreateObject statement:
>
> Microsoft VBScript runtime error '800a01ad'
> ActiveX component can't create object
>
> Now, this error is pretty common in 32-bit Windows, and is easily fixed by
> adjusting permissions on the COM object's DLL. But in 64-bit Windows this
> trick does not work anymore. Something else obviously needs to be done.
> But what???
>
> Any help will be greatly appreciacted.
>
> -- Abe
>

Homer
Fri Mar 24 08:34:32 CST 2006

> The COM objects my company sells are written in C++/ATL. When installed on
> Windows 2003 64-bit and used in the ASP environment, the following error
> is generated by a Server.CreateObject statement:

Pure speculation on my part (and someone might tell me this is irrelevant),
but can 64-bit IIS instantiate a 32-bit COM object?