Do I need Visual Studio on the Client machine to run DCOM?

I'm getting run-time error 429 on the client machine when I try to run a project
with an Active X Exe. Error 429 is: Active X component can't create object.
I tried including the vbr and tlb files created when I compiled the Active
X exe in the setup program on the client machine. I also tried to register
the vbr and tlb files on the client machine as follows:

CLIREG32 C:\WINNT\PROJECTADO.VBR -s NTWBUCK07733A -t C:\WINNT\PROJECTADO.TLB
-d -q

The client machine does not have Visual Studio or Visual Basic on it. Is
there anything I need to do on the server machine (which hosts the Active
X exe) to help the client machine recognize the Active X exe? Can DCOM run
on a machine without VB on it? Thanks for any help.

DCOM runs without VB installed - it is part of the Windows operating system (on 98
and NT, and can be downloaded and installed on 95). But a VB exe cannot run without
the VB run-time files installed. You must also register the A-X server. You can do
this by running the server using the command line switch /regserver (i.e.):

projectado.exe /regserver

Barbara wrote:

> I'm getting run-time error 429 on the client machine when I try to run a project
> with an Active X Exe. Error 429 is: Active X component can't create object.
> I tried including the vbr and tlb files created when I compiled the Active
> X exe in the setup program on the client machine. I also tried to register
> the vbr and tlb files on the client machine as follows:
>
> CLIREG32 C:\WINNT\PROJECTADO.VBR -s NTWBUCK07733A -t C:\WINNT\PROJECTADO.TLB
> -d -q
>
> The client machine does not have Visual Studio or Visual Basic on it. Is
> there anything I need to do on the server machine (which hosts the Active
> X exe) to help the client machine recognize the Active X exe? Can DCOM run
> on a machine without VB on it? Thanks for any help.

Thank you. That worked.
Bill Slater <bslater@home.com> wrote:
>DCOM runs without VB installed - it is part of the Windows operating system
(on 98
>and NT, and can be downloaded and installed on 95). But a VB exe cannot
run without
>the VB run-time files installed. You must also register the A-X server.
You can do
>this by running the server using the command line switch /regserver (i.e.):
>
>projectado.exe /regserver
>
>Barbara wrote:
>
>> I'm getting run-time error 429 on the client machine when I try to run
a project
>> with an Active X Exe. Error 429 is: Active X component can't create
object.
>> I tried including the vbr and tlb files created when I compiled the Active
>> X exe in the setup program on the client machine. I also tried to register
>> the vbr and tlb files on the client machine as follows:
>>
>> CLIREG32 C:\WINNT\PROJECTADO.VBR -s NTWBUCK07733A -t C:\WINNT\PROJECTADO.TLB
>> -d -q
>>
>> The client machine does not have Visual Studio or Visual Basic on it.
Is
>> there anything I need to do on the server machine (which hosts the Active
>> X exe) to help the client machine recognize the Active X exe? Can DCOM
run
>> on a machine without VB on it? Thanks for any help.
>