[AccessD] DAO Version

Charlotte Foust cfoust at infostatsystems.com
Thu May 29 15:08:13 CDT 2003


Ah, but then the help desk simply says, "reinstall the application" and
that reinstalls the A97 runtime which includes DAO 3.51.  <VBG>

Charlotte Foust

-----Original Message-----
From: MartyConnelly [mailto:martyconnelly at shaw.ca] 
Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2003 11:28 AM
To: accessd at databaseadvisors.com
Subject: Re: [AccessD] DAO Version


I knew I had seen one, there is another on reinstalling 3.51 after a 3.6

install and some rigamarole you have to go through just won't show up on

search of MSKB.

ACC97: Error Message: "Compile Error: Function or Interface Marked as 
Restricted, or the Function Uses an Automation Type Not Supported in 
Visual Basic"
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;303829

Charlotte Foust wrote:

>We have not seen problems with DAO 3.51 being "de-registered" on our 
>development machines nor on our test platforms.  However, if the MDE 
>uses DAO code, it will break completely if a reference is bad ... and 
>you can't reset that, you can only recompile the MDE.
>
>Charlotte Foust
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: MartyConnelly [mailto:martyconnelly at shaw.ca]
>Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2003 9:56 AM
>To: accessd at databaseadvisors.com
>Subject: Re: [AccessD] DAO Version
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>If for whatever reason DAO 3.6 is installed, it seems to deregister DAO
>3.51,
>so you have to Regsvr32.exe "YourPath\Dao350.dll" and reset your
>references. There was a couple of MSKB's on these but I can't find
them.
>I think if you upgrade your OS from Win 95 to WinXP this occurs.
>Charlotte Foust wrote:
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>>I strongly recommend that you have two versions of the mde, one for 
>>A97
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>>and one for A2k.  We have not had any luck packaging an A97 mde 
>>library
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>>with AXP.
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>>Charlotte Foust
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>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: John Bartow [mailto:john at winhaven.net]
>>Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2003 7:48 AM
>>To: accessd at databaseadvisors.com
>>Subject: RE: [AccessD] DAO Version
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>>For a mde library that I need to distributed with A97 or A2k. (There 
>>is
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>>no difference in the a2k app other than it can use an a2k BE.)
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>>I was thinking that if the library's reference was to DAO 3.6 in the
>>library then I could distribute it with both A97 and A2k versions of 
>>the app. Maybe I'm way off the mark here but I'm speculating about 
>>preventative measures.
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>>I haven't had any problems with the A97 version library or the FE when
>>referencing DAO 3.6 but then again I'm not an end user.
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>>JB
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>>>-----Original Message-----
>>>From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
>>>[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com]On Behalf Of Charlotte 
>>>Foust
>>>Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2003 9:56 AM
>>>To: accessd at databaseadvisors.com
>>>Subject: RE: [AccessD] DAO Version
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>>>Why would you do that in the first place?  If you have A97 installed,

>>>you have DAO 3.51 installed, and you can rely on it to be compatible 
>>>with A97 when you distribute a runtime app or when the target machine

>>>has A97 installed.  If you start mixing versions, you can run into 
>>>problems on other machines.
>>>
>>>Charlotte Foust
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>>>-----Original Message-----
>>>From: John Bartow [mailto:john at winhaven.net]
>>>Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2003 7:17 PM
>>>To: AccessD at databaseadvisors.com
>>>Subject: [AccessD] DAO Version
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>>>Are there any problems using DAO 3.6 with A97?
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