ObjectContext items collection is empty in COM+ Component

Question

Hi all,

I have ported a COM+ written in VB 6.0 to run in ASP.NET 3.5 and am attempting to debug locally --

My client is an ASP.NET application-- the target client will actually be a classic ASP application, but we aren't allowed to run IIS on our development machines, so I'm just trying to get the code to work with ASP.NET for now.

When I step into the code I notice that an ObjectContext is returned by GetObjectContext however its items collection is empty (the Count property's value for the returned ObjectContext is zero).

Here's the code segment --

Imports System.Data.Sql
Imports System.Data.SqlClient
Imports System.Text
Imports System.Runtime.InteropServices
Imports System.EnterpriseServices
Imports COMSVCSLib

Imports System.Web
Imports System.Web.SessionState
Imports ASPTypeLibrary


<Assembly: ApplicationActivation(ActivationOption.Server)> _
<Assembly: ApplicationAccessControl(False, AccessChecksLevel:=AccessChecksLevelOption.ApplicationComponent)> 
Public Class COMClass
    Inherits ServicedComponent

    Public Sub TestMethodObjectCtxt()

        Dim objContext As ObjectContext
        Dim objResponse As Response
        Dim objRequest As Request
        Dim objApplication As Application
        Dim objSession As Session

        Dim objAppServer = New AppServer
        objContext = objAppServer.GetObjectContext()

        objApplication = objContext("Application")  ' Obtain ASP
Application object.
        objSession = objContext("Session")      ' Obtain ASP Session
object.
        objResponse = objContext("Response")    ' Obtain ASP Response
object.
        objRequest = objContext("Request")      ' Obtain ASP Request
object.

        'This code uses the Response object (objResponse).
        'You can use other intrinsic objects in a similar fashion.
        If Not objResponse Is Nothing Then
            objResponse.Write("Hello World!")
        End If

    End Sub 

Answer 1

Hi, some additional information -- occassionally the ObjectContext returned from GetObjectContext has a non-empty items collection and I can access the various properties, but I am unable to recreate the conditions under which this happens - what could be causing the ObjectContext to be sometimes available and other times not? I am sooo confused-- any ideas????