VB/Access in IIS? Website or IIT?

[Curt LaMontagne]

I'm (hopefully) about to set up a multi-hosting web server, but I'm
having a tough time trying to decide if IIS is going to do the job for
me.

I really want to use VB and/or Access to generate quick interactive
database applications via the web, since I'm NOT a C++ programmer (at
least not yet).

I've tried Website's demo on Win 95, and it's almost astonishingly easy to
use. OTOH I eventually want to move to NT Server anyway, and since MS is
(sort of) giving it away with IIS, it's pretty tempting.

I've talked to MS about this, but they're no help.

So ... does anyone know if there is an easy way to run VB on IIS for CGI
or for ISAPI? Will there be soon?

Thanks very much for any input.

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"Bibo Ergo Sum"
Curt LaMontagne, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
lam...@firstresponse.com

[Dan]

I am in the same position. I am struggling with understadning the
realtionship of VB to IIS.

You will, however, find some usefull information in the April issue of
Viusual Basic Programmers Journal (do a search on Yahoo, the article
is online).

Let me know if you find a clean, easy answer.

Dan
dj...@sprynet.com

[Russell Greenlaw]

Well to answer the origional question you can do scripts in VB but you need to make the
OLE DLLs and use the OLEISAPI interface. The problem with that is I have yet to make it
work. It seems that IIS cannot locate either my LE DLL or the OLEISAPI.DLL file. I
have tried moving them around but to no avail.

If anyone reading this has gotten the oleisapi interface in IIS to work please e-mail me
so I can pick your brain.

Thanks in advance,
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Standard System Group
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[John Griffith]

With IIS there is Direct Support of ODBC. There is no need to
write VB apps to hook to databases. There is an .idc file that
provides the query to ODBC and an .htx file the formats the
output. Pretty slick stuff.

John

[Ashley Burgess]

Anyway,

Having been unable to post a reply for a bit here you go. I have a site running IIS and
using forms to mail, cgi, Access and A flexible engine. Check it out at http://www.infotel.co.uk/
index.htm

I am wondering if it would be worthwhile stripping this code down to a usable engine everything
is broken down to calls and it handles post and get methods.

What do you think ?

Ashley Burgess
ash...@infotel.co.uk