Re: VB 6 app crashes on windows 2003 server

There are a few KB articles on this - there are multiple problems and it's
impossible to say from your description which one you've hit.

You should verify that your installation program is bundling the VS6 SP6
merge modules of all VB6 redistributables you're using. It sounds like you
aren't.

"budbjames" <budbjamesNo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:36632978-8EF6-4E97-9E28-7F3249D4B9EB@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Hi all. I have an app written in vb 6 that has been tested on win 98,
> win 2k, win xp home, win xp pro. The app works fine on all of these
> operating systems. However, the app has trouble on windows server
> family operating systems. Specifically Win 2k server and windows
> server 2003. After loading Visual Studio 6 on the win2k3 server to try to
> step through the code in order to debug the problem, it seems that the
> installtion of visual studio 6 fixed the problem(s) (After installing VS6,
> the app no longer crashed). I'm trying to figure out what files aren't
> being
> installed by win 2k3 server that are installed by the other operating
> systems (or VS6).
>
> When my app's executable crashes there are 2 "send error report prompts".
> When I click to view the details, the two offending modules are
> kernel32.dll
> and then msvbvm60.dll. I've tried to install the vb6 runtimes on the
> server
> and still get the same problem. What is visual studio installing to fix
> this
> problem on windows server 2003? Any replies are greatly appreciated. I'm
> hoping it's a subset of DLL's or OCX's that i can distribute to fix the
> probelm but i'm not sure. Thanks in advance to all replies.
> --
> On a quest for knowledge,
>
> budbjames


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