Problem calling a COM object within my webservice - please help....
 

Hi,

If anyone can help me identify the problem here I would appreciate it!
Here
are the details:

I created a Windows based .NET application that has a reference to a
COM object. The COM object was instainted successfully and all the
calls to this COM object worked fine.

I moved the classes that referenced the COM object into a WebService
and made a reference to the COM object, esstially the exact same code.
When the WebService instanitates the COM object within a try block it
seems ok but as soon as I attempt to call a method on the COM object
it raises an
NullReferenceException. Here are some of the details in the exception:

_COMPlusExceptionCode -532459699
_HResult -2147467261
_message "Object reference not set to an instance of an object."
_xcode -1073741819
_xptrs 11989016
HResult -2147467261

Here are things that I have tried:
- using the tlbimp utility to create a .NET assembly and referencing
the wrapper assembly
- I gave administrator privelegdes to the aspnet_wp user
- removed the IIS anynonyous flag and connect with web.config set to
impersonate
- added the following line before the COM is created:
Thread.CurrentThread.ApartmentState = ApartmentState.STA;
- moved and reregistered the COM's dll in the same bin directory as
the webservice itself.

Thanks in advance for your help.
Mike

Re: Problem calling a COM object within my webservice - please help....
 

The error you have seems to indicate that you didn't instantiate your COM
object yet.

Do you have something like this for your object?

oMyObject = new MyComObject.ClassName

Can you post some code so we can see what's going on in that code?

Michael

"Michael" <mgibson@magmacom.com> wrote in message
news:89e085ae.0312181129.17120818@posting.google.c om...
> Hi,
>
> If anyone can help me identify the problem here I would appreciate it!
> Here
> are the details:
>
> I created a Windows based .NET application that has a reference to a
> COM object. The COM object was instainted successfully and all the
> calls to this COM object worked fine.
>
> I moved the classes that referenced the COM object into a WebService
> and made a reference to the COM object, esstially the exact same code.
> When the WebService instanitates the COM object within a try block it
> seems ok but as soon as I attempt to call a method on the COM object
> it raises an
> NullReferenceException. Here are some of the details in the exception:
>
> _COMPlusExceptionCode -532459699
> _HResult -2147467261
> _message "Object reference not set to an instance of an object."
> _xcode -1073741819
> _xptrs 11989016
> HResult -2147467261
>
> Here are things that I have tried:
> - using the tlbimp utility to create a .NET assembly and referencing
> the wrapper assembly
> - I gave administrator privelegdes to the aspnet_wp user
> - removed the IIS anynonyous flag and connect with web.config set to
> impersonate
> - added the following line before the COM is created:
> Thread.CurrentThread.ApartmentState = ApartmentState.STA;
> - moved and reregistered the COM's dll in the same bin directory as
> the webservice itself.
>
> Thanks in advance for your help.
> Mike


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Re: Problem calling a COM object within my webservice - please help....
 

Thanks for responding Michael,

Here is the code snippet that I am using to instaintate the com
object:

try
{
Thread.CurrentThread.ApartmentState = ApartmentState.STA;
pbcodeinterfaceClass pbInterfaceCOM = new pbcodeinterfaceClass();
String directoryData;
String lib = "somevalue";
directoryData = pbInterfaceCOM.of_exportlibrarydirectory(lib,(Int1 6)1);
if (directoryData != String.Empty)
{
...more code
catch (Exception ex)
{
ex = ex;
return null;
}

The code only blow's up when I call a method
(of_ExportLibraryDirectory) of my COM object (pbInterfaceCOM). Again,
this code works perfect when run within a windows application.

Thanks!
Mike




"Michael Pearson" <michaelp_extrajunktoremove@televox.com> wrote in message news:<u7hvGZcxDHA.1500@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl>...
> The error you have seems to indicate that you didn't instantiate your COM
> object yet.
>
> Do you have something like this for your object?
>
> oMyObject = new MyComObject.ClassName
>
> Can you post some code so we can see what's going on in that code?
>
> Michael
>
> "Michael" <mgibson@magmacom.com> wrote in message
> news:89e085ae.0312181129.17120818@posting.google.c om...
> > Hi,
> >
> > If anyone can help me identify the problem here I would appreciate it!
> > Here
> > are the details:
> >
> > I created a Windows based .NET application that has a reference to a
> > COM object. The COM object was instainted successfully and all the
> > calls to this COM object worked fine.
> >
> > I moved the classes that referenced the COM object into a WebService
> > and made a reference to the COM object, esstially the exact same code.
> > When the WebService instanitates the COM object within a try block it
> > seems ok but as soon as I attempt to call a method on the COM object
> > it raises an
> > NullReferenceException. Here are some of the details in the exception:
> >
> > _COMPlusExceptionCode -532459699
> > _HResult -2147467261
> > _message "Object reference not set to an instance of an object."
> > _xcode -1073741819
> > _xptrs 11989016
> > HResult -2147467261
> >
> > Here are things that I have tried:
> > - using the tlbimp utility to create a .NET assembly and referencing
> > the wrapper assembly
> > - I gave administrator privelegdes to the aspnet_wp user
> > - removed the IIS anynonyous flag and connect with web.config set to
> > impersonate
> > - added the following line before the COM is created:
> > Thread.CurrentThread.ApartmentState = ApartmentState.STA;
> > - moved and reregistered the COM's dll in the same bin directory as
> > the webservice itself.
> >
> > Thanks in advance for your help.
> > Mike
>
>
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