Debugging COM+ Objects locally

[dotsonmw]

Is it possible to debug a COM+ object on a local machine? I have InterDev 6.0 installed locally on a Windows XP Professional machine. I am also running IIS 5.0. When I try debugging a web application that contains a call to a COM+ object (which I have added to Component Services on the local machine), it throws an exception. I have been told that COM+ cannot work on a local machine, but only on a server.

I am trying to debug a web application locally (including the COM+ object) and then move it over to the production web server.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

[Chopstik]

Have you registered the component on the local machine? I also use a component and do testing/debugging on my local machine (set up as the server), so should not think there would be a problem. However, I use 2000 Pro, not XP, so not sure if there are differences in that regard.

Incidentally, what is th exception that is being thrown?

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[dotsonmw]

I have tried registering the DLL using this command :

regsvr32 c:\windows\system32\msrpts.dll

When I step through the ASP code, I get this message when it tries to instantiate the COM+ object as follows

set IPRD = Server.CreateObject("MSRpts01.cMSRpts&quot

An exception of type 'Server object:006~ASP 0177~Server.CreateObject Failed~Invalid class string' was not handled.

I have been looking for some kind of document\instructions on how to debug locally. I had found another threda in which you had helped someone with a similar problem, which helped me greatly to get Interdev to debug locally. Any sugestions?

 

[Chopstik]

Using the MS Knowledge Base, this is the first result that is returned with that error message:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;197966

There may be some other articles that can help, but see where this leads. I'll try to do some more research later as well.

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