Re: problem using Access 2000 database with VB 6.0 app

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From: Phil Hunt (phung_at_ktintl.com)
Date: 03/31/04 

Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2004 16:05:13 -0500

try install VB6 SP5, if you have not already.

"Nicholas Couch" <blake@thecouches.net> wrote in message
news:fe440ba9.0403311352.24663597@posting.google.com...
> Thanks for the suggestion, Jim! Unfortunately, that didn't solve the
> problem. I'm still getting the "unrecognized database" error. For what
> it's worth, I even tried creating a new project from scratch, with a
> single form that has nothing on it but the data control, and when I
> run the project, I get that same error.
>
> For the record, the computer is running XP Pro, with Visual Studio 6.0
> and Access 2000 installed prior ro undertaking this project.
>
> BC
>
>
>
>
> "Jim Carlock" <anonymous@127.0.0.1> wrote in message
news:<OcTjGPuFEHA.2732@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl>...
> > Grab the Jet 4.0 stuff and try that:
> >
> > http://support.microsoft.com/?KBID=282010
> >
> > --
> > Jim Carlock
> > http://www.microcosmotalk.com/
> > Post replies to the newsgroup.
> >
> >
> > "Nicholas Couch" typed:
> > I am working with a VB 6.0 application that I inherited, and which
> > currently runs with an Access 97 database and uses DAO code. I need to
> > have the application start using the same database converted to Access
> > 2000, but when I try to do this I get the "3343 Unrecognized Database
> > Format" error on a form that uses the Microsoft data control.
> >
> > I've looked at a number of threads that relate to this particular
> > scenario, and as far as I can tell, I have followed every feasible
> > suggestion offered to fix this problem. I have changed the project
> > references to DAO 3.6 from DAO 3.51. I have tried to update the
> > Connect property of the data control from "Access" to "Access 2000,"
> > but when I do this I get a runtime error message about a missing
> > installable ISAM.
> >
> > I have yet to find anything that makes this combination of tools work
> > together properly. Rewriting the application to use ADO instead of DAO
> > is really not an option. Has anybody had any success making this
> > scenario (I've got to believe it's a fairly common one) work?
> >
> > Thanks in advance for all useful advice!

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