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

Wait, are you calling Drew a turkey???

Charlotte Foust

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Jim Lawrence <accessd at shaw.ca> wrote:

>Just put a nice "real" SQL BE and now you are talking turkey. ;-)
>
>Jim
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>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
>[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Drew Wutka
>Sent: Thursday, March 31, 2011 7:43 AM
>To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
>Subject: Re: [AccessD] Using ADO and Windows 7 SP1? Be careful!
>
>I'm willing to bet that 95% of the things I wrote using ADO will work
>just fine......
>
>Web Front End.... 
>
>;)
>
>Drew
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
>[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Doug Steele
>Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2011 9:59 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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