Today I’ve been trying to instantiate an asp.net component from classic ASP using a Server.CreateObject, but I kept getting an error:

Microsoft VBScript runtime error ‘800a01ad’

ActiveX component can’t create object

This ranks up there with some of my most frustrating times, so I have to share this in case anyone else has this problem. I’m running iis 7 and the solution is to select advanced properties of your application pool and set Enable 32-Bit Applications to True. Some people had suggested that Managed Pipeline might need to be changed to ‘Classic’, so that might be another thing to try should your problem persist.

Tags: ASP.net, Classic ASP, com, Programming

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