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From: Viken Cerpovna on 28 Jun 2010 18:37 "Kevin Provance" <k(a)p.c> wrote in message news:i0b5ev$rrh$1(a)news.eternal-september.org... > Once, long ago, I had a popular VB app that used DAO, and the runtime DLL > Hell used to keep me in support hell. This was back in the 9x days when > system folders were in their infancy. I used to keep the DAO runtime in > my > apps folder with a .local file to force load that version, instead of > looking elsewhere on the system. That was DAO350.DLL which was an AX DLL, > or a hybrid DLL which had both AX and stdcalls. > I doubt that this worked in Win95 since DLL redirection was not supported for COM until Windows 2000. Viken
From: Tony Toews on 28 Jun 2010 19:19 On Mon, 28 Jun 2010 17:50:23 -0400, "Kevin Provance" <k(a)p.c> wrote: >: The four DLLs I care about are all AFAIK ordinary DLLs. That said >: they're distributed by MS as part of Access or the OS so who really >: knows. <smile> >: > >Once, long ago, I had a popular VB app that used DAO, and the runtime DLL >Hell used to keep me in support hell. This was back in the 9x days when >system folders were in their infancy. I used to keep the DAO runtime in my >apps folder with a .local file to force load that version, instead of >looking elsewhere on the system. That was DAO350.DLL which was an AX DLL, >or a hybrid DLL which had both AX and stdcalls. I can see that. Fortunately with DAO 3.6/Jet 4.0 it's been part of the OS since Windows 2000. Now with Access 2007 it's called ACE do we could be back to those DLL hell days. Tony -- Tony Toews, Microsoft Access MVP Tony's Main MS Access pages - http://www.granite.ab.ca/accsmstr.htm Tony's Microsoft Access Blog - http://msmvps.com/blogs/access/ For a convenient utility to keep your users FEs and other files updated see http://www.autofeupdater.com/ Granite Fleet Manager http://www.granitefleet.com/
From: Dee Earley on 29 Jun 2010 11:21
On 28/06/2010 12:05, Henning wrote: > "Helmut Meukel"<Helmut_Meukel(a)NoProvider.de> skrev i meddelandet > news:i09lq6$4mk$1(a)news.eternal-september.org... >> I'm certain, with older Windows versions (up to XP) M$ always >> used "Microsoft Shared" - no localized name - > > Anyone surprized? M$ supports country specific locales, but their own > programmers say: oohhh, are there other countries than US. ;) Why would you localise your internal data structures? I have a Japanese version of my app but I don't translate my installation folders, but I do change anything that is "obvious" to the user (Not that the name is any different). -- Dee Earley (dee.earley(a)icode.co.uk) i-Catcher Development Team iCode Systems (Replies direct to my email address will be ignored. Please reply to the group.) |