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

Just the same as Joe average is being pressured to switch to Windows 7 just to run IE9. It's all about M$ revenue.

Lambert

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From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Charlotte Foust
Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2011 11:09 PM
To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
Subject: Re: [AccessD] Using ADO and Windows 7 SP1? Be careful!

Developers who actually used ADO (yes, there were a few of us) are being pushed kicking and screaming into the .Net world.  Just because backwards compatibility used to be a Microsoft byword, doesn't mean we can depend on that any more.  With Windows 7, especially, you have to watch out for older apps that won't run properly in that environment.

Charlotte Foust

On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 7:58 PM, Doug Steele <dbdoug at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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