Run-time error 523

19 Mar 2006 11:09 AM

Ken Uzzell

Hello,

I use VB6, SP6 on winXP pro, SP2.

I recently recompiled an old database program, and redistributed it, works
fine on all customers machines from win98se to XP.

Yeah, I got one customer with a problem. Installs well, but when he goes to
run my program he gets a pop-up message that says ...

============
Run-time error '523'
The data binding DLL, 'VB5DB.DLL', could not be loaded.
============

I searched google on this and the only help I found was to make sure the
file was in the system32 directory, which it is.

As he is the only user from a couple of hundred customers that experienced
this problem, I would think there is a good chance there is an error in his
registery somewhere, but the registery checking software didn't find it. Are
there any other solutions I can advise him to do, next to asking him to
re-install winXP ?

Ken

--
Regards,
Ken Uzzell
http://heal-me.com.au
Frex - CHIamp

19 Mar 2006 11:22 AM

J French

Show quote Hide quote

On Sun, 19 Mar 2006 22:09:20 +1100, "Ken Uzzell" <k**@heal-me.com.au>
wrote:

>Hello,
>
>I use VB6, SP6 on winXP pro, SP2.
>
>I recently recompiled an old database program, and redistributed it, works
>fine on all customers machines from win98se to XP.
>
>Yeah, I got one customer with a problem. Installs well, but when he goes to
>run my program he gets a pop-up message that says ...
>
>============
>Run-time error '523'
>The data binding DLL, 'VB5DB.DLL', could not be loaded.
>============
>
>I searched google on this and the only help I found was to make sure the
>file was in the system32 directory, which it is.
>
>As he is the only user from a couple of hundred customers that experienced
>this problem, I would think there is a good chance there is an error in his
>registery somewhere, but the registery checking software didn't find it. Are
>there any other solutions I can advise him to do, next to asking him to
>re-install winXP ?

RegSvr32 vb5db.dll

And make sure he is Admin when he does it

Definitely do not get him to re-install XP
- that is the cretins solution

19 Mar 2006 9:23 PM

Ken Uzzell

I'm very new to XP, does he type this command in a DOS window?

Does he need to have the DOS window opened at the system32 directory?

Thanks for your help.

Ken

Show quoteHide quote

"J French" <erew***@nowhere.uk> wrote in message
news:441d3e6d.434130575@news.btopenworld.com...
> On Sun, 19 Mar 2006 22:09:20 +1100, "Ken Uzzell" <k**@heal-me.com.au>
> wrote:
>
>>Hello,
>>
>>I use VB6, SP6 on winXP pro, SP2.
>>
>>I recently recompiled an old database program, and redistributed it, works
>>fine on all customers machines from win98se to XP.
>>
>>Yeah, I got one customer with a problem. Installs well, but when he goes
>>to
>>run my program he gets a pop-up message that says ...
>>
>>============
>>Run-time error '523'
>>The data binding DLL, 'VB5DB.DLL', could not be loaded.
>>============
>>
>>I searched google on this and the only help I found was to make sure the
>>file was in the system32 directory, which it is.
>>
>>As he is the only user from a couple of hundred customers that experienced
>>this problem, I would think there is a good chance there is an error in
>>his
>>registery somewhere, but the registery checking software didn't find it.
>>Are
>>there any other solutions I can advise him to do, next to asking him to
>>re-install winXP ?
>
> RegSvr32 vb5db.dll
>
> And make sure he is Admin when he does it
>
> Definitely do not get him to re-install XP
> - that is the cretins solution

20 Mar 2006 8:07 AM

J French

On Mon, 20 Mar 2006 08:23:37 +1100, "Ken Uzzell" <k**@heal-me.com.au>
wrote:

>I'm very new to XP, does he type this command in a DOS window?

>Does he need to have the DOS window opened at the system32 directory?

Either the user provides the full path of the file to be registered or
the file must be in the same directory or in a directory in the
current PATH environment string