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What does this mean

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I have come accross this, never figured it out why. What I believe is a related error I get once in a blue moon:
'The RPC server is unavailable'

There is one difference. Your error is windows generated, my one is generated in the browser. Interested to hear what feedback you get on this one. I have posted this in the past and recieved no feedback.

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I have solved this problem, at least in my environment. Using VC++ 6.0, I used ATL to write a general COM+ server that returns pointers to various other ATL components that manage enumerations & collections.

I think of these other components as 'back-end' severs, which build the enumerations & collections from data stored within SQL-Server. And these components use ATL OLE-DB consumer templates to access SQL-Server.

One of my interfaces has a method that passes a VARIANT array to the server component, where the data is then saved within SQL-Server. It's this method that triggered the 'COM Surrogate has encountered a problem' message. Once I replaced the ATL wiz-generated db.Open(...)with db.OpenWithServiceComponents(...), in OpenDataSource method, the problem went away. Dunno if it's related, but I'm using a VC++ 6.0 MDI client.

mmmmm - I am still not clear why this error occurs. As I said it comes around less often that a blue moon. So much so its not a problem that needs to be solved, but one I would like to find out why...

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whats ATL?

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ATL (part of VC++) is Active Template Library and is used to build lite-weight components for use by various clients. Typically these components contain the business logic / data access tiers for an application. ATL is the library of choice for building components with VC++ because it is streamlined not to include user-interface baggage that tends to bloat up a component. Most back-end components don't need a UI and are written to be fault-tolerant, passing back all error situations back to the calling client. I never want a component to crash on me; always return control back to the client.

I usually write my components to be language-neutral, such that both web, VC++, and VB clients can use it's methods. This calls for dual interfaces.

For ASP pages the COM surrogate is DLLHOST.EXE. So this basically means that a component which you used on your page (using Server.CreateObject) has crashed so badly that its taken down DLLHOST too. You will find more info in the event log, but the error message is so vague that its very difficult to track down the exact cause.