Re: Windows XP SP2 MDAC 2.8 SP1

manish_agarwal_at_adp.com
Date: 02/21/05 

Date: 21 Feb 2005 03:40:58 -0800

Hi,

Is MDAC 2.8 SP1 available for download now.

Thanks
-- Manish

Val Mazur wrote:
> You could be in trouble in this case. MDAC 2.8 SP1 will be for
download for
> sure, but since there is no official announcement about it, it is
hard to
> say when it could be released. Say was with MDAC 2.8, when it was
initially
> released only with Windows 2003. I will try figure out what are
possible
> solutions in this case and will post it here
>
> --
> Val Mazur
> Microsoft MVP
>
>
> "Thomas" <Thomas@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:1F08919C-5385-43BE-B94D-8CDB1192B298@microsoft.com...
> > Hi,
> >
> > I installed MDAC 2.7 on the server; but the error '~' of Object '~'

> > Failed"
> > still occurs; but is not a reproducable error. I guess my next step
is to
> > insure that the application components (VB6) are compiled updated
with the
> > same MDAC version that is running on the server. My question now
is; since
> > my
> > development machine now has XP SP2 which contains MDAC 2.8 SP1; for
which
> > there is now web release with which to update the server; what
should I
> > do?
> > Any thoughts would be much appreciated.
> >
> > Thanks
> > Tom
> >
> >
> > "Val Mazur" wrote:
> >
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> Usually this error means that MDAC installation was corrupted. In
a case
> >> if
> >> your application was compiled to use MDAC 2.8 and you try to use
it on a
> >> platform that has MDAC 2.6 it might fail with this error. But if
error is
> >> not consistent and ADO code works fine in some cases, then I would

> >> suspect
> >> that it is not a version-related issue, but actual corrupted MDAC.
> >>
> >> --
> >> Val Mazur
> >> Microsoft MVP
> >>
> >>
> >> "Thomas" <Thomas@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> >> news:1DDE1DAD-8D81-48CC-BACB-CEACAE09AA49@microsoft.com...
> >> >I recently updated my development computer to Windows XP SP2.
Unawares,
> >> >i
> >> >now
> >> > realize that a new update for MDAC came along with. My VB6
project
> >> > produces
> >> > DLL's targeted for a Windows 2000 server currently running MDAC
2.6.
> >> >
> >> > Currently on the windows 2000 server we are experiencing
periodic
> >> > failures
> >> > that render an evelt log message of '~' of Object '~' Failed"
message.
> >> >
> >> > It is unclear whether I should return to an ealrier version of
MDAC of
> >> > my
> >> > dveelopment computer or install MDAC 2.8 on the server.
> >> >
> >> > Does anyone have any thoughts.
> >> >
> >> > Tom
> >> >
> >>
> >>
> >>

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