BUG: ObjectContext Item Collection Is Empty When You Debug Under COM+

• The MTS Transaction Mode for the component is set to a value other than 0 - NotAnMTSObject.
• Visual Basic 6 Service Pack 3 (SP3) or later is installed on the computer.
• The authenticating user has the appropriate permissions. For additional information, click the article number below to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
  259725  (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/259725/EN-US/ ) PRB: Error Occurs When You Debug a COM+ Component Under the Visual Basic IDE with an ASP Client
• The component is deployed in a COM+ application.

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Steps to Reproduce the Behavior

1. Create a Visual Basic ActiveX DLL project.
2. Add a simple function to the project that returns a string, as follows:

   Public Function TestFunc() As Variant
       
       Dim ctx As COMSVCSLib.ObjectContext
       Dim app As ASPTypeLibrary.Application
         
       Set ctx = GetObjectContext()
       'Breaks here ,app is nothing
       Set app = ctx("Application")
       TestFunc = app("sConn")
      
   End Function
   
   					

3. Create a simple ASP page that calls this component, as follows:

   <% 
       Dim str, oComponent 
       Application("sConn") = "Test"
       Set oComponent = Server.CreateObject("TestObjCntxt.TestClass") 
       str = oComponent.TestFunc() 
       Response.Write(str) 
   %> 
   					

4. Start the debugger in Visual Basic for the ActiveX DLL project.
5. Locate the ASP page that you created in step 4. You receive the above-mentioned error message.

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