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

Sorry, I mis-read your post.  I just tried running the fixed client
version (compiled on W7 no SP1) on my computer (W7SP1) without
re-compiling and it ran correctly without any errors.

Doug

On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 10:47 AM, John Bartow <john at winhaven.net> wrote:
> Hi Doug,
> Just for clarification purposes, if the compiled access database running ADO
> is compiled on anything older than W7SP1 does it still work correctly on
> W7SP1?
>
> John B.
>
> -----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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