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From: Bee on 17 Apr 2010 14:49 Hope this does not double post. I waited and saw nothing post. I had trouble getting into the MS website and loggin in. THis time it was easy. Fortunately I made a Notepad copy before hitting Post. Anyway ... I installed camera software from Trendnet that did not work so after an hour on the phoine with their tech support i uninstalled it from my Vista PC. Now many of my VB6 apps crash on startup. Question has two parts. (1) i opend the IDE to find that one of the apps loaded fine but crashed on a line using FSO. So I looked at the References and found that the Microsoft Scripting Runtime was checked but down below there was no path or file. I believe that means that the file is gone, probably removed by the Trendnet uninstall. Thanks a lot TrendNet. So, where do I get this file and how do I put it back in? I do not remember the name of the file either. (2) other than trapping error 429 what is the best way to handle this type of problem. the messages says ActiveX component can't create object. Is there a way to get the name of the object so an error message can say what is missing?
From: Bee on 17 Apr 2010 15:29 After lots of googling I found that the name of the file I was probably looking for was scrrun.dll. What is the .dep file used for? But the only link at MS that claimed to download was dead. Anyway, I found that the file was actually there in my Windows\System32. but still could not be seen in the VB6 IDE. I took a shot and used my register script and it said it worked. So I tried my apps and they worked. Seem the Trendnet uninstall unregistered scrrun.dll. My other questions are still open. I see that i did indeed get two post dups. Sorry.
From: C. Kevin Provance on 17 Apr 2010 15:51 Stop using the FSO. It's a badly written crutch that can be knocked out from under you at anytime...as you have seen. Just about everything you can do with the FSO can be done with VB and/or the API. -- 2025 If you do not believe in time travel, your beliefs are about to be tempered. http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=43606237254 "Bee" <Bee(a)discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:A2B843FC-CFD0-4265-A1C7-3B01E2E17E34(a)microsoft.com... : Hope this does not double post. I waited and saw nothing post. : I had trouble getting into the MS website and loggin in. : THis time it was easy. Fortunately I made a Notepad copy before hitting : Post. Anyway ... : : I installed camera software from Trendnet that did not work so after an hour : on the phoine with their tech support i uninstalled it from my Vista PC. : Now many of my VB6 apps crash on startup. : : Question has two parts. : (1) i opend the IDE to find that one of the apps loaded fine but crashed on : a line using FSO. : So I looked at the References and found that the Microsoft Scripting Runtime : was checked but down below there was no path or file. : I believe that means that the file is gone, probably removed by the Trendnet : uninstall. Thanks a lot TrendNet. : : So, where do I get this file and how do I put it back in? : I do not remember the name of the file either. : : (2) other than trapping error 429 what is the best way to handle this type : of problem. the messages says ActiveX component can't create object. : : Is there a way to get the name of the object so an error message can say : what is missing? :
From: Mayayana on 17 Apr 2010 17:51 It may be that Trendnet installed a different version, which then broke your reference. You should have v. 5.6 or 5.7. If you don't then download the Windows Script Host installer. That's how scrrun.dll gets installed normally. And as Kevin said, try to stop your dependence on FSO. It's a crappy, slow set of objects that were designed for minimal Windows scripting, at a time when people at Microsoft didn't take scripting seriously. People were clamoring for something more up-to-date than command line (since it was about 1998 and GUIs had existed for several years:) so MS cooked up the Windows Script Host. They haven't updated it notably ever since. Ironically, now we're in an era of 3-D, over-the-top GUIs and people are clamoring for command line. So MS cooked up Power Shell and hooked .Net into it....while still not updating the WSH! Also note, some people remove scrrun.dll for security reasons. So you can't depend on it and shouldn't ship it. The DEP file is for the PDW. It tells the PDW what version of scrrun you have and what dependencies it has... Which raises another problem: I think scrrun.dll requires msvcrt.dll, the VC6 runtime... You DEP file for scrrun is almost certainly wrong, which will cause the PDW to complain. But it's just a text file that's easily edited to relfect your latest scrrun install. | After lots of googling I found that the name of the file I was probably | looking for was scrrun.dll. What is the .dep file used for? | But the only link at MS that claimed to download was dead. | Anyway, I found that the file was actually there in my Windows\System32. | but still could not be seen in the VB6 IDE. | I took a shot and used my register script and it said it worked. | So I tried my apps and they worked. | Seem the Trendnet uninstall unregistered scrrun.dll. | | My other questions are still open. | I see that i did indeed get two post dups. Sorry. |
From: Bee on 17 Apr 2010 20:01
I would stop using FSO if I knew how. I have written around almost all FSO handy code but there are parts that I cannot do without. FSO very quickly gets drives and folders with all the associated properties. I have also found cases where i think that the Delete API does not work and the FSO delete file does work. |