Macromedia breaks COM support in ColdFusion, and now COM is dead? Sounds like spin to me: rather than fix it, we'll just declare it dead and deride the use of it. Don't get me wrong, I know you don't work for Macromedia, and I know COM is something less than ideal. However, it works well for much of what we do, and sometimes it is the only way to get the job done. I'd really like to see Macromedia fix COM support in ColdFusion than have presenters haranguing the death of COM at Devcon. COM is years away from being dead in any practical sense.
Benjamin S. Rogers http://www.c4.net/ v.508.240.0051 f.508.240.0057 -----Original Message----- From: Steve Drucker [mailto:sdrucker@;figleaf.com] Sent: Thursday, October 24, 2002 10:39 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: Urgent : GURU Required: Excel vs COM in CFMX Yeah, the problem is that you're using COM to connect to Excel. As has been previously mentioned several times on various boards, COM is dead. Microsoft has abandoned COM, ColdFusion MX doesn't support COM particularly well due to its new architecture, and invoking Excel as a COM object on the server isn't even supported by Microsoft under ASP: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q257757&ID=kb;en -us; Q257757&FR=1 So, just say no to COM. I'm actually lecturing about this topic at Devcon in a few days. Your viable options are as follows: 1) Simple data can be sent to Excel as delimited fields 2) More complex data can be represented as HTML or XML and loaded directly into Excel (especially Excel 10/XP) 3) Use the Office XP web control to embed MS-excel functionality in your web pages (assuming the end user owns a license of XP) 4) Use Excel's web query features, or use CF to create a web query file 5) Create a web service in CFMX that is accessible to Excel as a web client Regards, Steve Drucker CEO Fig Leaf Software > -----Original Message----- > From: Daryl Fullerton [mailto:Daryl.Fullerton@;biznet-solutions.com] > Sent: Thursday, October 24, 2002 7:52 AM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: Urgent : GURU Required: Excel vs COM in CFMX > > Folks / Guru's > > Hi, Wonder if there are any CFMX / Excel COM gurus out there that could > help. > > Much appreciated if anyone knows what is causing the below or can > recommend a fix. > > Cheers > > D > ColdFusion Usergroup Ireland Manager > > E: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > W: http://www.cfug.ie > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Eric Zumot > Sent: 24 October 2002 11:46 > To: CF-Talk > Subject: Excel vs COM in CFMX > > > I have been facing big difficulties in using COM Objects to access > Excel, (Platform Win2000, Office2000, CFMX). When the same code was on > CF5.0 it worked perfectly without any problems. > > In the beginning, COM Objects couldn't connect to Excel, after doing > several installations of Office2000, it connected successfully. The main > problem started happening afterwards, which is accessing the Excel COM > Object properties (The main error occurs whenever it tries saving the > file). In brief, below are the main steps of I did so far; > > 1- I followed all the instructions recommended in Macromedia's article > (http://www.macromedia.com/v1/Handlers/index.cfm?ID=22922&Method=Full) > Followed the steps, and still the same error, no joy. > > 2- I changed the permissions of ColdFusion in the services Applets as > recommended in cfcomet.com > (http://www.cfcomet.com/other/index.cfm?ArticleID=32381637-0922-41CA-BBE > 305C2D66A7025#22) Restarted the services and the server and still the > same error. > > 3- Downloaded and installed the Updater > (http://dynamic.macromedia.com/bin/MM/software/trial/hwswrec.jsp?product > =cfmx_updater) after showing installation was successful, I restarted > the services and the whole server again. I kept getting the same error, > except for one trial that was successful, afterwards it returned back to > the same problem. > > > Eric (Sael) Zumot, > Senior Programmer, > > BizNet Solutions, > 133-137 Lisburn Road, > Belfast, > Northern Ireland > BT09 7AG > > T:++44 (028) 90223224 > F:++44 (028) 90223223 > E:[EMAIL PROTECTED] W:http://www.bizNet-solutions.com > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists&body=lists/cf_talk FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Signup for the Fusion Authority news alert and keep up with the latest news in ColdFusion and related topics. http://www.fusionauthority.com/signup.cfm
