Visual Basic, error in loading DLL (strange problem)

error in loading DLL (strange problem)

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Morgan Nyma #1 / 4	error in loading DLL (strange problem) I have ASP-pages calling ActiveX components usually residing in MTS. While this works perfectly in my real application, I have never found a good way of debugging the components. It feels like I'm closer than ever now, just one little problem... My debugging environment is Windows 2000 professional, and Visual Basic 6 running a project group of 20 or so projects. My problem occurs when a component function returns a variant containing a UDT to ASP. I know that the documentation says that this is not supported, but it works perfectly fine when it runs outside of the VB6 IDE. When the function returns, I get "error in loading DLL" (see Q224397, "PRB: "Error Loading DLL" When Returning User Defined Data Type from VB COM Object"). Is there a way to make it work in the VB6 IDE? I need to return the UDT because it is put into a session object for use in later pages. Cheers, / Morgan
Sun, 24 Oct 2004 21:12:14 GMT

Gar #2 / 4	error in loading DLL (strange problem) Based on my first research, i found that the User-defined data types are not supported in the current version of Active Server Pages (ASP). Here is the public article: PRB: Returning a UDT from a VB COM Object Brings an Error (Q224422) http://www.--.com/ ;en-us;Q224422 Then i also tried it with the following code, VB DLL code: Public Type TestUDT strName As String strDept As String End Type Public Function TestMethod() As Variant Dim udtTestData As TestUDT udtTestData.strDept = "TestDept" udtTestData.strName = "TestName" TestMethod = udtTestData End Function ASP code: <% Dim objTest, udtData Set objTest = Server.CreateObject("VBUDTPrj.VBUDTObj") udtData = objTest.TestMethod() Response.Write( "Name = " & udtData.strName & "<BR>" ) Response.Write( "Dept = " & udtData.strDept & "<BR>" ) %> When I run the ASP without debugging into the VB Dll, the following error occurred: Microsoft VBScript runtime error '800a01a8' Object required While with VB DLL de{filter} enabled, the same error as you mentioned occurred: Microsoft VBScript runtime error '800a0030' Error Loading DLL: TestMethod As my suggestion, please follow the workaround mentioned in the article above to workaround the problem. Regards, This posting is provided "AS IS", with no warranties, and confers no rights. Enjoyed ASP.NET? http://www.--.com/
Mon, 25 Oct 2004 10:46:31 GMT

Morgan Nyma #3 / 4	error in loading DLL (strange problem) I wasn't too clear about my problem. I never try to access the contents of the returned variant; only send it to a session variable. The error occurs directly when the variant is returned into an ASP-variable (actually as a return value from an ASP-function). This does not expose the udt contents and should work. It leads me to think that I have problems creating my udt object from ASP. Note that I have this in global.asa: <!-- METADATA TYPE="TypeLib" file="c:\mydll.dll" --> I can't find much information about this construct so I'm going to run a little more trial-and-sure to error. / Morgan Quote: > Based on my first research, i found that the User-defined data types are > not supported in the current version of Active Server Pages (ASP). Here is > the public article: > PRB: Returning a UDT from a VB COM Object Brings an Error (Q224422) > http://www.--.com/ ;en-us;Q224422 > Then i also tried it with the following code, > VB DLL code: > Public Type TestUDT > strName As String > strDept As String > End Type > Public Function TestMethod() As Variant > Dim udtTestData As TestUDT > udtTestData.strDept = "TestDept" > udtTestData.strName = "TestName" > TestMethod = udtTestData > End Function > ASP code: > <% > Dim objTest, udtData > Set objTest = Server.CreateObject("VBUDTPrj.VBUDTObj") > udtData = objTest.TestMethod() > Response.Write( "Name = " & udtData.strName & "<BR>" ) > Response.Write( "Dept = " & udtData.strDept & "<BR>" ) > %> > When I run the ASP without debugging into the VB Dll, the following error > occurred: > Microsoft VBScript runtime error '800a01a8' > Object required > While with VB DLL de{filter} enabled, the same error as you mentioned > occurred: > Microsoft VBScript runtime error '800a0030' > Error Loading DLL: TestMethod > As my suggestion, please follow the workaround mentioned in the article > above to workaround the problem. > Regards, > This posting is provided "AS IS", with no warranties, and confers no > rights. Enjoyed ASP.NET? http://www.--.com/
Fri, 29 Oct 2004 18:22:04 GMT

Morgan Nyma #4 / 4	error in loading DLL (strange problem) I've found the cause. It was the dll which was not correctly registered in the location referenced in the metadata tag. I used a project group and only had the dll project in there... which of course didn't work. Now, I pulled it out of the project group since it needn't be in there anyway and it all worked. Gary, thanks for your help / Morgan Quote: > I wasn't too clear about my problem. I never try to access the contents of > the returned variant; only send it to a session variable. The error occurs > directly when the variant is returned into an ASP-variable (actually as a > return value from an ASP-function). This does not expose the udt contents > and should work. It leads me to think that I have problems creating my udt > object from ASP. Note that I have this in global.asa: > <!-- METADATA TYPE="TypeLib" file="c:\mydll.dll" --> > I can't find much information about this construct so I'm going to run a > little more trial-and-sure to error. > / Morgan > > Based on my first research, i found that the User-defined data types are > > not supported in the current version of Active Server Pages (ASP). Here > is > > the public article: > > PRB: Returning a UDT from a VB COM Object Brings an Error (Q224422) > > http://www.--.com/ ;en-us;Q224422 > > Then i also tried it with the following code, > > VB DLL code: > > Public Type TestUDT > > strName As String > > strDept As String > > End Type > > Public Function TestMethod() As Variant > > Dim udtTestData As TestUDT > > udtTestData.strDept = "TestDept" > > udtTestData.strName = "TestName" > > TestMethod = udtTestData > > End Function > > ASP code: > > <% > > Dim objTest, udtData > > Set objTest = Server.CreateObject("VBUDTPrj.VBUDTObj") > > udtData = objTest.TestMethod() > > Response.Write( "Name = " & udtData.strName & "<BR>" ) > > Response.Write( "Dept = " & udtData.strDept & "<BR>" ) > > %> > > When I run the ASP without debugging into the VB Dll, the following error > > occurred: > > Microsoft VBScript runtime error '800a01a8' > > Object required > > While with VB DLL de{filter} enabled, the same error as you mentioned > > occurred: > > Microsoft VBScript runtime error '800a0030' > > Error Loading DLL: TestMethod > > As my suggestion, please follow the workaround mentioned in the article > > above to workaround the problem. > > Regards, > > This posting is provided "AS IS", with no warranties, and confers no > > rights. Enjoyed ASP.NET? http://www.--.com/
Fri, 29 Oct 2004 21:48:26 GMT

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