VB ASP Component Building Guidelines by Charles Carroll

Component written in Visual Basic can be written using programming techniques that will cause them to be unstable in a web server environment. Commands, Functions and Objects that are fine in most standalone or client/server VB programs may not be appropriate in a web server component. We offer the following major guidelines:

• Do not use DAO or RDO for data access. Use ADO only. DAO and RDO do not scale to the concurrency issues a website faces well.
• Do not use traditional file access methods (Open #, Close #). Instead use the scripting FileSystemObject.

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