HOw to access your remote application

**mike@spb** · December 12th, 2002, 12:15 PM

Since I did not get a response, I'll try rewording again and see if I can get a solution.

I have created an application which runs on a remote machine. I have heard that through DCOM you can control the application and run functions or methods contained in your remote application. I am not too sure of how to make it work. On my web page I have the following:

Code:

<body>
<%
dim MyApp
dim MachName
	
MachName = "123.123.123.123"
	
set MyApp=CreateObject("MyApp.Application", MachName)
	
%>
</body>

This does create the object since I don't get any errors but how do I access or call a function in the application. I want to call a function called update(CString &CurTime).

Is there a book I can get to teach me this?

Mike@spb

**fransn** · December 12th, 2002, 03:03 PM

I would advise against using DCOM for remote applications.
Sockets are much easier to implement(i.e. they always work,versus DCOM sometimes, if you happen to install it correctly).

**mike@spb** · December 12th, 2002, 03:11 PM

Thanks, I was looking into using sockets. Seems simplier. I got my application to listen on a certain port. Do you know how to connect to it using asp?

Mike@spb

**fransn** · December 12th, 2002, 04:51 PM

To use sockets from ASP you would have to write a C++ dll that wraps raw sockets. I wrote a very skinny and fast one that I unfortunately can't share here. But PJ naughter's pop3 classes (look up in Google,he's a Dr Dobbs) show how to use raw sockets. If you then strip off his MFC sh*t you have a good socketclass.

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