Enabling a DLL to Run on DCOM

The following steps outline how to enable a business object .dll to use both DCOM and Microsoft^® Internet Information Server (HTTP) via Microsoft^® Transaction Server.

1. Create a new empty package in the Transaction Server Explorer.

   You will use the Transaction Server Explorer to create a package and add the DLL into this package. This makes the .dll accessible through DCOM, but it removes the accessibility through IIS. (If you check in the registry for the .dll, the Inproc key is now empty; setting the Activation attribute, explained later in this topic, adds a value in the Inproc key.)

2. Install a business object into the package.

   -or-

   Import the RDSServer.DataFactory object into the package.

3. Set the Activation attribute for the component to In the creator's process.

   To make the .dll accessible through DCOM and IIS on the same computer, you must set the component's Activation attribute in the Microsoft Transaction Server Explorer. After you set the attribute to In the creator's process, you will notice that an Inproc server key in the registry has been added that points to a Microsoft Transaction Server surrogate .dll.

See Also   For more information about Transaction Server and how to perform these steps, visit the Transaction Server Web site at http://www.microsoft.com/transaction/ or refer to the Microsoft Transaction Server documentation.