Re: Crash VB6 on SP2 Mdac2.8?

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From: William \(Bill\) Vaughn (billvaRemoveThis_at_nwlink.com)
Date: 12/19/04


Date: Sat, 18 Dec 2004 21:29:38 -0800

I suspect that the version of MDAC your program is designed to use is not
the same as the one you're using. Run Component Checker
(www.microsoft.com/data) to verify the versions on both systems. However,
SP2 introduces a number of interesting side-effects that might also be
playing a role here.

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"Rene" <starbase231@hotmail.com> wrote in message 
news:41C1938B.3000804@hotmail.com...
> For no apparent reason my programme comes to a dead stop when it runs on 
> computers with Windows XP Service Pack 2 installed. I am not  sure why 
> because it runs excellent on Win98 and Win2000 computers. As far as I can 
> trace it, the program hangs randomly and on an instruction that isn't that 
> strange (tested on a laptop computer XP SP2 with VB6/Note that it hangs 
> one the same position ONLY in the same test session). I have to say the 
> routine that produces the error is accessing the database quite a lot 
> (ADO). I thought it might be a mdac 2.8 issues as this is installed with 
> SP2 but I'm not sure about this. Looking at the code I am unable to 
> pin-point the problem. I developed the program on my Win2000 so it is hard 
> for me to reproduce the error. All I do know that at one point the laptop 
> with XP SP2 reported a Memory error message but I forget the exact details 
> of this message. Can anyone please point me into the right direction?
>
> Thank you,
> René
> 


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