Upgrading a VB6 ActivityX EXE project

[Oenone]

I'm about to begin porting a VB6 ActiveX EXE project over to VB.NET.

This project (project "A") has nearly always been used purely as an
executable, but on a small number of occasions we have written other
executables which automate project A, getting it to launch itself, connect
to a database, and then calling methods on one of its exposed classes.

Is there a way of getting the same thing to happen in VB.NET? I have the
choice of converting this project to a DLL (which I definitely don't want as
then I can't run it stand-alone) or an EXE (which I guess is my only
choice), but I can't see how I can then get other applications to invoke
project A and get a reference to its objects.

Can anyone point me in the right direction?

Thanks,

 

[Ken Tucker [MVP]]

Hi,

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnadvnet/html/vbnet10232001.asp

Ken
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I'm about to begin porting a VB6 ActiveX EXE project over to VB.NET.

This project (project "A") has nearly always been used purely as an
executable, but on a small number of occasions we have written other
executables which automate project A, getting it to launch itself, connect
to a database, and then calling methods on one of its exposed classes.

Is there a way of getting the same thing to happen in VB.NET? I have the
choice of converting this project to a DLL (which I definitely don't want as
then I can't run it stand-alone) or an EXE (which I guess is my only
choice), but I can't see how I can then get other applications to invoke
project A and get a reference to its objects.

Can anyone point me in the right direction?

Thanks,