Solved - vb5db.dll was not present in the system directory even though DAO
3.6 MDAC 2 and VB6 sp6 runtime files were installed.
"Chris Farmer" wrote in message
> Hi all, if anyone can shed some light on this I'd be very happy!
>
> I have an large application which uses the DAO version that is loaded on
> the users system (normally 3.6). There are currently over 300 users of the
> application and it would appear that the majority have no problems. This
> applciation is 4 years down the line in it's development
> .
> Anayway, occassionally I get a user that has a problem whenever there is a
> Data Control on a form. The form will be child window of the MDI and the
> data control will be linked to a True DBGrid since the grid can't be used
> without the data control. No matter what error coding I place in the forms
> load event whenever the user tries to open a form that contains a data
> control the application just shuts down! sometimes with a beep. They don't
> even get a GPF! everything else appears to work fine.
>
> Has anyone got any ideas?
>
> Cheers Chris
>
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