Microsoft KB Archive/138064

= Search Order for OLE Servers =

Article ID: 138064

Article Last Modified on 12/9/2003

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Visual Basic 4.0 Standard Edition
 * Microsoft Visual Basic 4.0 Professional Edition
 * Microsoft Visual Basic 4.0 Professional Edition
 * Microsoft Visual Basic 4.0 16-bit Enterprise Edition
 * Microsoft Visual Basic 4.0 32-Bit Enterprise Edition

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This article was previously published under Q138064



SUMMARY
A Visual Basic OLE server can be of three types:


 * 32-bit InProc Server (32-bit .dll)
 * 32-bit Local Server (32-bit .exe)
 * 16-bit Local Server (16-bit .exe)

This article summarizes the order in which OLE servers are searched when a client makes a call to a server that has all three possible types registered on the computer. This search order depends on whether the client was a 32-bit or a 16-bit Windows-based application. The first type of server found in the search order is the one that is started



Search Order for a 32-bit Client
32-bit InProc Server

32-bit Local Server

16-bit Local Server

Search Order for a 16-bit Client
32-bit Local Server (Only on a 32-bit Operating System)

16-bit Local Server

Additional query words: 4.00 vb4win vb4all

Keywords: KB138064

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