What is the best approach?

3 Mar 2006 8:33 PM

Andrew

Hello, friends,

We need to create a user control (COM) in which it should be able to
retrieve binary data from a given website after a user selects an item ID and
clicks Retrive button.

We then can put this user control in a html page (generated by .asp page) so
that internet users can use our data stored in our web server.

Any reference paper or sample source code?

Thanks a lot...

(We thought about DCOM, but it does not sound like a good approach nowadays,
right?)

4 Mar 2006 9:32 AM

Anthony Jones

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"Andrew" <And***@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:1B47D4C1-E725-4EB3-823D-1A8E12B87E7F@microsoft.com...
> Hello, friends,
>
> We need to create a user control (COM) in which it should be able to
> retrieve binary data from a given website after a user selects an item ID
and
> clicks Retrive button.
>
> We then can put this user control in a html page (generated by .asp page)
so
> that internet users can use our data stored in our web server.
>
> Any reference paper or sample source code?
>
> Thanks a lot...
>
> (We thought about DCOM, but it does not sound like a good approach
nowadays,
> right?)

Why use a custom COM object at all?

Use msxml2.XMLHttp object to post a query to an ASP page and have that ASP
page return XML.

The client machines will only need a browser and not custom ActiveX
controls.

Anthony.