First of all, here is the error message I am getting:

HTTP 500.100 - Internal Server Error - ASP error
Internet Information Services
    * Error Type:
      Server object, ASP 0177 (0x800401F3)
      Invalid class string
      /BegAsp/SetProperties.asp, line 4

I tried using the file from this site. I have Windows XP and am using Mozilla 1.7 and IE 6.0. I get the same problem on both. I have IIS running, and DID install MyTelephone.dll correctly. I have attempted to stop and start IIS with no change. Any suggestions?

Hi there,

Can you show us the code for this example? And did you register the DLL on the server running IIS, not your local machine?

Imar
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CODE:

<%
    Option Explicit
    Dim objTelephone
    Set objTelephone = Server.CreateObject("MyTelephone.Telephone")

    objTelephone.Color = "Blue"
    objTelephone.Material = "Thermoplasitc"
    objTelephone.Weight = 22
    objTelephone.NumberOfKeys = 12

    Response.Write "Done"
    Set objTelephone = Nothing
%>


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And, yes, the DLL is registered to the machine running IIS. I even tried stopping and starting IIS before and after registering the DLL.

This looks fine to me. What is the name of the project in Visual Basic? And what is the class name? Is it Telephone?

It looks like the DLL isn't registered correctly. Did you check out the Errata section for the book to see if there is something in there about this problem??

Imar
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Yeah, the code is exactly as the book/the web site has it.

I do not understand what you mean by "the name of the project in Visual Basic". I am just creating a file called "SetProperties.asp" in the Windows Notepad and then trying to call it up off of the web server. The way it looks in the book, the "Telephone" is an object (probably created by MyTelephone.dll).

I have read through the error sections of the book as well as the "common problems" installing and registering a .DLL and its suggestion was to come here for help. The .DLL is sucssfully registered (according to regsvr32.

Any more ideas? Thanks.

That was just a guess. When you create an ActiveX DLL in Visual Basic, the Prog ID for the object is ProjectName.ClassName.
So, your VB Project is called MyTelephone while one of the classes inside the project is called Telephone. Together they make up the Prog ID: MyTelephone.Telephone

If your project or your class is named otherwise you'll get an error like the one below. This is a common issue.

If you successfully registered the DLL using regsvr32, then I am almost out of ideas. Usually, the error you get is caused by a component that is not, or not successfully registered on the server.

Maybe it's a security issue. Maybe you have a tight security policy on your system. Is the ASP account (IUSR_MachineName) allowed to access the folder where the DLL is placed?

Imar
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Ah, I see. Unfortunately, I do not have a Visual Basic editor or compiler on this system, so I cannot see exactly how MyTelephone.dll was created or what is in it. I am having to trust the good authors of "Beginning Active Server Pages 3.0" to have written good code.

I don't think it is a security issue. I am running IIS and the browser from the same machine, and I have administrator rights. I tried registering the .DLL in the wwwroot directory, just to make sure, but there was still no difference.

I also tried out the next example (RetrieveProperties.asp) and got the same problem, which still points back to the .DLL, but I don't have any more ideas.

Anything else I can try? Thanks.

That fact that you are having Administrator privileges doesn't really say much. When IIS server up Web pages, it uses a special account, the anonymous guest account with the user name of IUSR_MachineName where MachineName is the name of your computer running IIS. It's this account that requires permissions to read and write to files in a Web application (unless you have configured the Web site differently of course).

Like I said, I am out of ideas. According to the errata, this is a known problem, but with a few work arounds. If none of these work, it's also not a permission issue and you're are not using an incorrect prog ID (which you aren't, apparently) then I don't know what's going on.

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Well, I checked the IIS permissions, and it does not look like that is causing the problem. Thank you for the information regarding those permissions, as I did not know to check them.

Thanks for all of your help. Perhaps someone else will take a look at this and might be able to offer something different. Thanks again!

Anyone else?

One more thing: Where did you get the DLL file from? From the (unzipped) setup package, or from the Windows folder after you ran Setup.exe?

Does the file end with .dll or with .dl_??

Imar
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