ASP native dll access

Hello. I'm very new to ASP, vb, and vbscript so please bare with me. I am trying to access a native dll using vbscript from an asp file. Is this possible? If so, can you please provide an example? Thank You for any help.

 

I am assuming you mean classic ASP and not ASP.NET? If classic asp, did you first register the DLL? For .NET, take a look at this thread: http://forums.asp.net/p/939729/2093799.aspx

 

If you are on a Windows shared hosting plan it is more likely you cannot access any DLL, VBS or EXE file unless your hosting plan expressly allows it.

 

thanks for the help and sorry for the long reply wait. i am using asp.net, not classic. i am not on shared host so i do have access to the dlls and i have actually managed to acces a .net dll, but the native one is giving me a lot of trouble. i looked at the link you provided and tried adding the dll path to the path environment variable as well as changing the permissions on the file both of which did not help

this is the error i am getting - Could not load file or assembly 'Envelope' or one of its dependencies. The module was expected to contain an assembly manifest.

 

You do have the dll in your bin folder, correct? Hmmm, I'm stumped on that one, because I don't have a way to test .. hopefully someone smarter than I will come along to assist

 

What's in the dll, where'd you get it, all that?

You need to put it in the bin folder, the GAC, or somewhere else where it's accessible to IIS. Then you need to create a reference to it in your project. If it's a .net assembly, you should be able to pull in the namespace ( using in C# ... import? in vb ) and use the objects. But, if you mean it's a COM+ dll when you say native, you're going to need some kind of interop code.