linking a dll to an asp page ?

[meg]

Our company has a website in place that allows users to get information. I've been asked to call a custom
made dll that returns a registration number to the user. I don't know much about dlls or coding concepts for
that matter (I've built pretty basic client/server asp websites only), but I would like to be able to at least
ask the right questions so that I can understand just what I need to look into to do this.

Can someone tell me what questions they would ask if they were told to do something like this?

Does it depend what "kind" of dll it is and what language it's written in?
Do I then just need to know the arguments it takes?
How do you register a dll?

If you can offer any more information I would appreciate it, thanks!

 

[Guest]

To call a DLL from ASP, it has to be a COM/ActiveX dll. It's instantiated
via Server.CreateObject(MyObject.Name)

Do you have Visual Basic? It's easiest to test the dll in VB

Jeff

Our company has a website in place that allows users to get information.

I've been asked to call a custom

made dll that returns a registration number to the user. I don't know

much about dlls or coding concepts for

that matter (I've built pretty basic client/server asp websites only), but

I would like to be able to at least

 

[meg]

I don't have the dll yet, but yes I have VB. Someone mentioned an extended stored procedure also, isn't that
a kind of dll you can call as well from asp? (I'm not sure if it is that kind of dll yet)

Sounds like once it's "registered" I can create an instance of it as I would a connection or recordset object.
However, I need to know what it does, or properties of the dll I guess.

thanks for your reply

To call a DLL from ASP, it has to be a COM/ActiveX dll. It's instantiated
via Server.CreateObject(MyObject.Name)

Do you have Visual Basic? It's easiest to test the dll in VB

Jeff

Our company has a website in place that allows users to get information.

I've been asked to call a custom

made dll that returns a registration number to the user. I don't know

much about dlls or coding concepts for

that matter (I've built pretty basic client/server asp websites only), but

I would like to be able to at least

 

[StephenMcC]

Check out the following link, should get u up to speed on custom vb ActiveX
dlls:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/dnvb600/html/404track.asp?frame=true