He recommends developing components based on any of the architectures that are not locked into the IIS environment. This week, Jason Taylor s first of two articles tests whether converting the bulk of his auction application code to a component architecture can increase performance, scalability, and maintainability of the Internet application. Included is a description on when to use the component and source code for creating the component. Learn from Adam's experience in design COM objects and passing data byref including in depth hints on programming COM objects in Visual Basic. Creating a COM Object to Manipulate the File System Stephen Fishman shows how to create a COM object that will allow you manipulate the file system from an ASP page.
Source code is included.
The application we will develop demonstrates an extensible framework that could be easily enhanced to provide additional account-maintenance functionality specific to your individual requirements. In doing so, Shai discuss some of the details of component security. Shai also shows how to create virtual directories by calling ADSI from and Active Server Page. This article by Jeff Niblack debscribes how to build a component in Visual Basic that executes FTP commands. He demonstrates how to build the component with the WinInet functions provided by Internet Explorer using Visual Basic as a itermenderary between the COM interface and WinInet.