Output via ActiveX-DLL

				The code is relatively simple. You start Visual Basic (I thought the code does more belong in this forum than the VB forum), create a new ActiveX-DLL, name your project and the by default created class as you like and insert the following code.


Public Function Ausgeb(strAusgeb As String, rspResponse As Response) As Boolean

rspResponse.Write strAusgeb

Ausgeb = True

End Function


Public Function AusgebLn(strAusgeb As String, rspResponse As Response) As Boolean

rspResponse.Write strAusgeb & vbCrLf

AusgebLn = True

End Function

Then you save it and compile it to a DLL.

You then start Visual Interdev or your favourite ASP-editor and insert the following lines between the body-tags in script tags I at the moment don't know how to show here.

set a=Server.CreateObject

("ASPTest.ResponseTest")

a.AusgebLn "Hallo",Response

a.Ausgeb "Hallo",Response

set a=nothing

I named my project ASPTest and the Class ResponseTest. You have to change it to your project's and class' names.


You save this file in your WWWRoot or a subfolder.

After you've registered the ActiveX-DLL with Regsvr32 you can call the ASP-File via your localhost or the webserver you saved it on.
If you then throw a look at the sourcecode of the output you'll see the word "Hallo" twice in two lines.

I'm sure you've guessed what the two Methods of the class do and where the differences are.


I'm at the moment not quite sure if it's faster than Response.Write but with longer text and a properly set up Transaction Server it surely can accelerate your web-applications.

Giving the Response-object by reference is much easier than finding it out using the GetObjectContext-method of a MTS-object.


If you change the Sourcecode of the DLL (e.g. if you enlarge the functionality) and get errors recompiling you have to stop the webserver, shutdown the Transaction Server and restart again.
I do this using a batch file.


@echo off

NET STOP iisadmin /y

MTXSTOP

NET START W3SVC




I hope this article helpes you to understand how to develop ActiveX-DLLs for server side use.