[AccessD] Using ADO and Windows 7 SP1? Be careful!

Darryl Collins Darryl.Collins at iag.com.au
Wed Mar 30 22:06:24 CDT 2011


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Stuart McLachlan posted a link warning of this issue on here back in Late Feb, Early March.  I am sure the thread below has grown since then, but it was well worth a read back then.

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It seems that if you are using ADO and compile under Win7 SP1, your application may no 
longer work on previous Winodws versions :-(

<<http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/windowsgeneraldevelopmentissues/thread/3a4ce946-effa-4f77-98a6-34f11c6b5a13>> 
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cheers
Darryl.


-----Original Message-----
From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Doug Steele
Sent: Thursday, 31 March 2011 1:59 PM
To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
Subject: [AccessD] Using ADO and Windows 7 SP1? Be careful!

I had a call from a client this morning.  Some code that I had written
using ADO to write records to a back end, code which has been working
for 2 or 3 years, was crashing with a message indicating that ADO
wasn't working.  Unfortunately, it was a bit of a panic situation and
I didn't get a screen dump of the message.  I putzed around with the
references and re-compiling, and got it to work.  Turns out that this
is probably an example of a known problem:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2517589

There is also a discussion (well, a bunch of bitching) about this in
the LinkedIn Access Developers group.  If I understand it correctly,
an Access database using ADO which is compiled on a computer running
Windows 7 SP1 will NOT run properly on any other version of Windows.
I`m running Win7 SP1 and my client is Win7, so I guess this was the
problem.

I wonder if I can send an invoice for my debugging time to Microsoft...

Doug
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