[AccessD] Microsoft Update June 2026 - Strange Issues With VB6 Com+ Objects

[Rocky Smolin]

I’m glad I reached retirement at just about the time that my skills with
Access became increasingly obsolete and the market was shrinking, and so
was not faced with developing a new skill set like C++.

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On Fri, Jun 19, 2026 at 8:01 AM Jim Dettman via AccessD <
accessd at databaseadvisors.com> wrote:

>
> Just glad to hear you found a solution.
>
> It's getting tougher to find things related to older technologies, or
> anyone
> with knowledge of them.
>
> Jim.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: AccessD On Behalf Of Paul Hartland via AccessD
> Sent: Friday, June 19, 2026 4:04 AM
> To: Access List <accessd at databaseadvisors.com>
> Cc: Paul Hartland <paul.hartland at googlemail.com>
> Subject: Re: [AccessD] Microsoft Update June 2026 - Strange Issues With VB6
> Com+ Objects
>
> Thank you to all that responded, my apologies for not supplying enough
> information.  We did however get to the bottom of the issue, we had a
> series of bespoke VB6 COM+ applications in the "COM+ Applications" folder.
> We have had to remove them from there, until Microsoft come up with a fix
> etc.
>
> Thank you so much to the people that respond, I don't usually take this
> long to reply, but I've been working so hard trying to figure out what was
> going wrong with our application.
>
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>
> Thank you once again for your replies, this list has been an amazing source
> over the years and the people on here are just fantastic.
>
> Paul
>
> On Wed, 17 Jun 2026 at 12:22, Paul Hartland <paul.hartland at googlemail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > To all,
> >
> > Not sure anyone will get this, as I don't tend to see many postings from
> > AccessD anymore.  Since the latest Microsoft patches have been installed
> on
> > our servers at work, com+ objects that were built using VB6 that have
> > worked for years, suddenly giving unexpected results.  i.e. type
> mismatches
> > etc and blanking variables that have been passed to functions inside
> > classes, when there doesn't seem to be another assignment of that
> variable
> > anywhere.
> >
> > Was just wondering if anyone had similar problems with any MS Access
> > systems etc
> >
> > Thanks in advance for any help.
> >
> > --
> > Paul Hartland
> > paul.hartland at googlemail.com
> >
>
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