Search Order for OLE Servers

 Last reviewed: October 30, 1995
Article ID: Q138064
The information in this article applies to:
  • Standard, Professional, and Enterprise Editions of Microsoft Visual Basic, 16-bit and 32-bit, for Windows, version 4.0

SUMMARY

A Visual Basic OLE server can be of three types:

  • 32-bit InProc Server (32-bit .dll)
  • 32-bit Local Server (32-bit .exe)
  • 16-bit Local Server (16-bit .exe)

This article summarizes the order in which OLE servers are searched when a client makes a call to a server that has all three possible types registered on the computer. This search order depends on whether the client was a 32-bit or a 16-bit Windows-based application. The first type of server found in the search order is the one that is started

MORE INFORMATION

Search Order for a 32-bit Client

32-bit InProc Server 32-bit Local Server 16-bit Local Server

Search Order for a 16-bit Client

32-bit Local Server (Only on a 32-bit Operating System) 16-bit Local Server

Additional reference words: 4.00 vb4win vb4all
KBCategory: kbole
KBSubcategory: IAPOLE

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Last reviewed: October 30, 1995
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