Re: Distribution woes

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"That Guy" <i_powers@xxxxxxxxxxx>'s wild thoughts were
released on 1 Nov 2006 07:41:14 -0800 bearing the following
fruit:

Hello world,

I have been working on a program that utilizes a number of disconnected
record-sets to store all kinds of information. I have since tried to
release a beta version of this program to my users and have encountered
a problem.

The program loads fine, but when I start the process and begin
initializing things I get an error that says, "ActiveX cannot create
object". I read that this is most likely caused by a poor instantiation
of MDAC, ADO, or DAO methods. The advice that I have seen in most
places tells me that I should reinstall or re register my ADO or DOA
DLLs. I have tried this to no avail.

I packaged MDAC_TYP.EXE version 2.6 with my program and I have it run
during install. I also package the version of the ADO DLL that I use
within my program and have it self-register during installation but
have still been unable to solve the problem.

I am not sure though that the data access methods that I am using are
the problem. I am also using an instance of MSXML, and stepping through
my program have found that it is possible that when I am trying to
create the xml objects I could also be generating this error. I did
package the MSXML runtimes with the program via the MSXML4 msm modules,
and I think that they are installing correctly, but I don't know how
to check other than to search for the DLLs in the system32 folder
(which I did and I found them to be there).

I really don't know what to do now any advice would be greatly
appreciated.

Thank you

Guy

Add some error logging, you *should* be able to tell us
exactly where the problem is and which objects your dealing
with.



Jan Hyde (VB MVP)

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