Recall the syntax you saw in the preceding chapter for instantiating ActiveX
objects in a client application:
Dim xl as Excel.Application
and
set xl = CreateObject("Excel.Application")
or
set xl = GetObject(,"Excel.Application")
Some server components (including any server components that you create with
VB) support Microsoft's recommended standard, Dim As New. Assuming you had created
a server component MyServer with a class MyClass, you could set up an object variable
reference to the server component class with the line:
Dim objSvr As New MyServer.MyClass
This is the only line of code you would need, because the As New keyword declares
and instantiates the object variable in a single line of code.
A somewhat more resource-efficient way to use the New keyword would be to
declare the object variable without the New keyword, only using New when you're
ready to use the object in code:
Dim objSvr As MyServer.MyClass
'Later in code:
Set objSvr = New MyServer.MyClass
This means that the resources to instantiate the object would not be required
until the time that the object was actually needed.
The common thread in each of these sample lines is the servername. classname
syntax you use when referring to your server component class.
The preceding statements that reference the system name of the server component
and its class (Excel.Application or MyServer.MyClass) assume that you have already
set a reference to the server component in the client project.
In this chapter, you see how to create, test, and maintain server components
that can behave as Excel.Application did in the examples from Chapter
13.
