can acitvex dll return dictionary object

[hinchdog]

that's pretty much my question. i wanted to build a dll that accept a key, value pair, add it to a dictionary object and return that object. however, i wanted to be able to keep adding value pairs to the dictionary object. if you're wondering why i need a .dll to do this it's becuase i want each user to have their own dictionary object. if i just declare a dictionary object on the ASP page, every time it's accessed the dictionary object would be changed for everyone. that is correct, no?

 

[JohnYingling]

No, each dictionary object is a separate object. Do it in your ASP page. No DLL is necessary.

Now, if you try to store it across ASP pages that is a different story and not even a DLL will solve that. If all the data is string, then each dictionary can be saved in a pair of Session Variables by doing

Session(strName & "keys") = dctd.Keys
Session(strName & "items") = dctd.Items

Retrieve and rebuild the dictionary with

'****
'* rebuild dictionary
Dim aryKeys
Dim aryItems
aryKeys = Session(strName & "keys")
aryItems = Session(strName & "items")

For I = 0 To Ubound(aryKeys)
    dctd(aryKeys(I)) = aryItems(I)
Next

Each session is separate for each user. I did this because Dictionary objects could not be stored in Session Variables (in ASP 1.x) and it is cleaner anyway.

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[JohnYingling]

On second thought, the data does not have to be string. Just be careful about storing objects in the dictionary and then into Session Variables.

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