The Server.CreateObject Method

Introduction

The Server.CreateObject method can be used to create an object of a server component. If you are using a component, which is accessed over and over then you should create the component in the global.asa Application_OnStart method. That way you will avoid that the component will be loaded again and again.

Example

The following example creates a server object of the MSXML DOM. After that it tries to load a file, which doesn’t exist. Therefore it will just show the message “Could not load file”.

<%

            Set xmlDoc = Server.CreateObject("MSXML2.FreeThreadedDOMDocument")

            xmlDoc.async = false

            if xmlDoc.load(Server.MapPath("server_object_createobject_example1.xml")) then

                        Response.Write "File Loaded"

            else

                        Response.Write "Could not load file"

            end if

%>

Output