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Kevin Williamson

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Dec 31, 2001, 12:17:27 PM12/31/01

Louis,

The system error is caused by the fact that unquoted long file names
containing spaces are ambiguous to CreateProcess (which is called by
CoCreateInstance/CoGetClassObject). It will then cause a COM local server
fail to start, accompanied by the error "Server Execution Failed" (error
number 0x80080005 or -2146959355), if it is registered in a directory with
a long file name that contains a space and a similar directory name exists
at the same level. If the server is registered with a short file name,
this problem does not occur. This is not a problem for inproc
servers(i.e., dll servers), but for a local server like visdata.exe, this
is a problem.

1. From Start, click on Run and type in the following command to
unregister visdata in its current location:

"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\VB98\VISDATA.EXE" /unregserver

2. Copy visdata.exe from the above directory to some directory with
shorter name, for example, c:\visdata

3. From Start, click on Run and type in the following command to register
visdata in its new location:

"C:\visdata\VISDATA.EXE" /regserver

4. Run visdata from VB6 IDE add-in menu again and it should work now.

Kevin Williamson - Microsoft Visual Basic Developer Support
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