Need to create a multi-threaded component that streams file from remote server to asp.net

[dotnetnewbie]

I'm a dotnet newbie and have been developing some web applications in
asp.net. I have a requirement to load files from a remote file cache
server (many of them actually) to a web image viewer. The files can
be sensitive and because of that I can not use a virtual directory to
access them. A coworker has suggested that I create a com + object
that would read the file and stream it back to the asp application but
I really don't know how to get started. It seems like it should be
easy but how do you create a component that returns a stream? Should
it be a memory stream and then don't I have problems with the com
object needing to be multi-threaded to support my web multi-user
environment? Can anyone suggest an example of how this might be done.

Dotnet Newbie

 

[Cor]

Hi Newbie,

Here is the resource kit a very good tool to learn things.

As an advice you can crosspost, but maximum 3 is mostly seen as good
behaviour.
Often you get with this kind of crosspost only answers as "please do not
crosspost"

http://msdn.microsoft.com/vbasic/vbrkit/default.aspx

And if you have problems installing it

http://msdn.microsoft.com/vbasic/vbrkit/faq/#installvdir

I hope this helps a little bit?

Cor