Upgrade DLL

[howardyc]

I have a problem with COM Object registered in NT 2000 Advance Server with IIS Server.

The problem is when I come to a time to upgrade my DLL with a newer version, I can not overwrite previous DLL unless I reboot server (it gives me Sharing Violation error). I know for sure that I am the only one who use this COM Object.

What I'd like to do is to replace the older version DLL with newer one without reboot my server.

Did I do something wrong in programming my COM Object? Or is it the nature of using COM Objects, in a sense, you have to reboot the computer in order to drop the older COM Object from memory than you can overwrite with a newer one.

Please help!!

howardyc

 

[SemperFiDownUnda]

a few things could be causing this
1) the IIS application that is using the com object(s) in the DLL stil has a hold of it.
2) Component Services (if it is installed to component services) still has it locked because it retains objects in memory for 3 minutes by default.

NT won't let you overwrite it because some process has a hold on it still. Rebooting just force all processes to shut down thus releasing you dll.

 

[howardyc]

Thaks!! SemperFiDownInda.