Article ID: 243543
Article Last Modified on 9/17/2003
APPLIES TO
- Microsoft Active Server Pages 4.0, when used with:
- Microsoft Internet Information Server 3.0
- Microsoft Internet Information Server 4.0
This article was previously published under Q243543
SUMMARY
Do not store Single-Threaded Apartment (STA) COM components in an Active Server Pages (ASP) Session or Application.
MORE INFORMATION
Storing objects that are marked as STAs, such as components produced by Visual Basic (ActiveX DLLs), limit scalability and can negatively impact performance. Storing STAs in Session scope causes thread affinity and defeats the purpose of a thread pool. When an STA component is stored in Session scope, all subsequent ASP requests from the same user (session) must be executed by the thread that created the component.
In general, stateless page-scoped components perform best. Page-scoped components are COM objects that you create and destroy within the same ASP page. If you need to pass state information from page to page, the following article demonstrates possible techniques that do not use Session:
175167 HOWTO: Persist Values Without Session
REFERENCES
For additional information, click the article numbers below to view the articles in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
175167 HOWTO: Persist Values Without Session
243548 INFO: Design Guidelines for VB Components Under ASP
Keywords: kbinfo kbthread kbaspobj kbscalability KB243543
