>Hi all,
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>I have a COM component written in Visual Basic and compiled as an ActiveX EXE. I'm able to instantiate and call it's public method from my ASP code but I can't get it to run asynchronously while I redirect the browser to another page which gives status updates.
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>Does anyone have experience with calling COM methods from ASP that execute asynchronously?
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>Thanks for your help!

You might be able to do something using a Session variable and calling a method that initiates a timer control and immediately returns. The timer control could initiate some other process (this is how we do it in VFP COM components).

If the COM object is created within the page, it is local to that page. It either finishes its work then or it goes out of scope when the page finsihes processing.

HTH.