HOWTO: Upgrade your Web DLL to run in Windows 2000 and XP Professional

The information in this article applies to:

• ASNA Visual RPG, Release 3.0 and Higher
• Windows
• MTS / COM+ Services
• Web
• ActiveX

SUMMARY:

These steps show what is needed to run your Web AVR DLL to run in Windows 2000.

STATUS:

Current.

MORE INFORMATION:

NOTE:  The items below demonstrate what is needed in your DLL to run successfully on your Windows 2000, XP Professional machine. These steps will work only if you have your current Windows 9x / NT Web DLL running on an current NT Server. You will need the same requirements on your Windows 2000 Server as Windows NT Server (i.e. ADB Multi-Tier License, AVR Runtimes, a COM+ package that is equivalent to an MTS Package).  If you do run into some problems, please refer to the $$AVRERR.txt in C:\program files\common files\ASNA shared.

The instructions below describes what is needed within a two step process:

1. Modifying code
2. Selecting appropriate References for the Project.

Step 1:

• On Windows NT, the Object type is MTxAS; however, on Windows 2000 and XP Professional, the Object type is renamed to ComSvcsLib.  These are the following changes you will need to change in your code and will replace references of MTxAS to ComSvcsLib:

Note: Make sure you convert each MTxAS instance to ConSvcsLib.

Step 2:

• These are the new Project References you will need to have the Web DLL to compile:

  Note: Please save the Project after selecting these new references.

Other ASNA KB Articles:

• INFO: The location where AVR creates $$AVRERR.txt log file
• PROBLEM: ASP Server.CreateObject fails
• HOWTO: Debugging a Web DLL.
• PROBLEM: Can't find Database Name when running within an ASP in a Web application

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