side COM components to use from within ASP?
No, any development environment that can produce OLE Automation Servers can make components that are compatible with Active Server Pages. Popular authoring tools for components include Microsoft C++ (http://msdn.microsoft.com/visualc), Microsoft Visual Basic (http://msdn.microsoft.com/vbasic/), and Inprise Delphi (http://www.inprise.com/delphi/). There are special requirements when writing components for use with ASP, but component developers should be mindful of threading and other similar issues that come up when programming for multi-user environments like the Web. 12.
