Re: Setting up a Timer in an ActiveX DLL

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Ok, let me start again, and explain what I am doing...

I am writing a WebStats App... for my web server, and I will also be
packaging it up and selling it.

Right now, my DLL really does nothing at all that requires it to run
under IIS... all it does right now is extract/collate data from the
logs, and write specific thinmgs into an access database, via
ADODB/ODBC...

Eventually, it will also handle login/domain access via ASP, and I will
also encapsulate a lot of the back end code for the Stats DHTML
generation within it to prevent clients from playing with/breaking the
package.

basically, I just want my DLL triggered every morning to collate the
previous dayus logs form all domains being tracked.

It all works fine now, apart from the auto running of itself every
morning.

So... Can an EXE be used instead of the DLL? Can I still access my
classes the same way (Via ASP), and if so, can the EXE have a timer on a
form (that never gets seen) run this way under IIS?

Though I am a very capable web developer, and have no dramas with
VBScript/JavaScript/ASP, and have written COM DLL's for IIS before as
basic wrappers for other DLLs, I have never written something like this
that has to automate itself.

I dont want it running under windows schedule as it is something that
needs to be self sufficient, as it will be a product I will be selling,
and I want the installation to be quick and simple, and the package to
work in the simplest way possible.

I hope this clarifies things a bit...


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