>Please excuse my persistence ( and apparent ignorance ) here, I must be missing something, either on the C++ end or the IE end of things.
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>If I am understanding correctly, based on what you, Ed R. and Erik have said, I should have created a COM component in C++ ATL that is capable of being instantiated in a web page using Createobject() in VBScript. The DLL currently very simple with only a single function containing one API call in it. It has been tested successfully in VB and VFP.
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>However, there must be something you all think I know that I must not know, because I cannot get the object to instantiate in a web page on my local machine that built the DLL. IE returns "Error: ActiveX component can't create object: 'SysData.IssSysData'" at the Createobject( "SysData.IssSysData" ) statement.

If you have your browser set up to not instantiate ActiveX objects any call to Createobject will fail. Using CreateObject on a Web Page is usually not a good idea, because CreateObject will have no way to automatically download a component and thus can't check for signatures. It requires that the component is already there.

That said the right way to deal wtih objects in a script page is to the use the < OBJECT > tag, which on the other hand won't work with every object (CreateObject works with any registerd component that supports IDispatch - youc an even instantiate VFP that way given you have rights).

You process should be: make sure the component works in VFP. Then move it into the script page with < OBJECT > making sure you don't have ACtiveX controls/objects disabled in your security settings.

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