Re: Error 429 from OpenDatabase in VB5 SP3 IDE

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"Steve Richfie1d" <Steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> I finally fixed it! For the next poor dumb SOB who runs into this same
> damn problem, read
> <http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;189607> and
> follow the simple directions to fix it.
>
> Steve Richfie1d
> ====================
> Steve Richfie1d wrote:
> > On further debugging, even looking at DAO's DBEngine.Errors collection
> > gets the same Error 429, so it would seem that there is SOMETHING wrong
> > with the linkage between this VB5 and DAO 3.51. The references are the
> > same on both machines and the EXE for this program (compiled on another
> > machine) runs with DAO 3.51 on this machine, so it would seem to be a VB
> > problem. I'm running short on ideas where to look for the problem.
> >
> > Any ideas?
> >
> > Steve Richfie1d
> > =======================
> > Steve Richfie1d wrote:
> >
> >> There have been a lot of postings by people with Error 429 from
> >> OpenDatabase calls, with apparently none of them ever finding a
> >> satisfactory resolution! However, mine is a little special because I
> >> have done some additional characterization. It ONLY happens in the IDE
> >> of a Windows 98 machine, which can STILL properly run without a
> >> problem an EXE using this call created on an XP machine! That should
> >> be some sort of MAJOR clue. I was developing on a borrowed machine and
> >> its owner returned, so I had to move my development to my ancient
> >> wonder, which has this "little" problem.
> >>
> >> I went through the long checklist for this problem in
> >> <http://support.microsoft.com/kb/244264/EN-US/> and did everything
> >> except for wiping my hard drive clean and starting over. Everything
> >> checked out OK.
> >>
> >> I also verified that the references were identical, which of course
> >> they were since I just copied the entire project from one machine to
> >> the other. Both use the DAO 3.51 object library.
> >>
> >> Any ideas?
> >>
> >> Thanks in advance.
> >>
> >> Steve Richfie1d

Great!

Now disregard my other message. <g>

-ralph


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