Andrew,

Thanks for your help. Your suggestion did help me to solve the problem.

Marco



>Marco,
>
>I've just finished tracking down this exact problem on a DLL.
>
>The issue was that I was returning .f. from the init (because a precondition failed). The precondition failed because I hadn't taken the path changes into consideration. When instantiating a COM component, it doesn't (necessarilly) have its location as its default directory.
>
>In turn, this caused a locfile() (which I hadn't bracketed with _vfp.startmode checks) to fire and there was a UI stuck in the limbo of COM.
>
>Tracking it down got a lot easier when I compiled the COM server as an exe - there was a task in the task list titled "Open"
>
>After that, it was just a matter of writing to a log file at each step through the init method and finding where it got to.
>
>Here's the code I used for writing the log:
>

*-------------------------------------------------------
>* Procedure...: WriteLog
>* Called by...:
>*
>* Abstract....: Writes a debugging message to a log
>*
>* Parameters..:
>*
>* Notes.......:
>*-------------------------------------------------------
>	PROTECTED PROCEDURE writelog
>
>		LPARAMETERS tuMessage
>
>		LOCAL lcMessage
>		lcMessage = ALLTRIM(TRAN(tuMessage))
>
>		IF VERS(2) > 0
>			DEBUGOUT lcMessage
>		ELSE
>			LOCAL lcFileName
>			lcFileName = ADDBS(SYS(5) + SYS(2003)) + ('DLLError.log')
>			STRTOFILE(CHR(13)+CHR(10) + lcMessage, lcFileName, .T.)
>		ENDIF
>
>	ENDPROC &&* WriteLog

>Then, through the init just pepper plenty of this.writelog('Step 1')
>
>HTH
>
>Cheers,
>
>Andrew
>

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>>Hi,
>>
>>I developed a VFP dll which I want to call from a asp-page.
>>The VFP dll works in VFP (createobject) but when I perform the command in the asp-page the following errormessage is returned: Server object, ASP 0177 (0x80040111) Classfactory cannot supply requested class.
>>(line 20)
>>
>>Line 20 has the following code:
>>Set oHotel = Server.CreateObject("Hotelcom.Hotels")
>>
>>I don't know for sure if the dll is proper registered. The dll is in the same directory (on the server) and is created on this server in VFP (and automaticaly registered I presume).
>>
>>We work with W2000 advanced server.
>>
>>I hope somebody can give me a hint.
>>
>>Marco