Automation Error The System Cannot Find The File Specified Vb6
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here for a quick overview of the site Help Center Detailed answers to any questions you might have Meta Discuss the workings and policies of this site About Us automation error the system cannot find the file specified tlb Learn more about Stack Overflow the company Business Learn more about hiring developers ms access automation error. the system cannot find the file specified or posting ads with us Stack Overflow Questions Jobs Documentation Tags Users Badges Ask Question x Dismiss Join the Stack regasm codebase Overflow Community Stack Overflow is a community of 4.7 million programmers, just like you, helping each other. Join them; it only takes a minute: Sign up COM registration fails: “Automation error: the system automation error in vba cannot find the file specified”, when installing dll into other folder than the tlb file up vote 3 down vote favorite We have a COM component (let's call it MyLib) developed in VB.NET, for our Access application (let's call it MyApp) to use. In order to do that, we need to do COM registration using the generated MyLib.dll and MyLib.tlb files. When I am installing both files
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into our MyApp's folder, everything is working fine, the COM function is invoked correctly. However, I am having an error mentioned in the title when I am installing the dll into a common folder - the reason I am doing it is because we want to allow different versions of MyApp to be installed on the same machine. So if the COM component doesn't change, we of course want to share it among these different versions and let Windows do the reference count. I am not sure where I should put the MyLib.tlb file, either in MyApp's installation folder, or the same common folder as MyLib.dll. But anyway, I tried both locations, and they all gave the same error. I tried to compare the registry files between the case when I put MyLib.* into MyApp's folder, and the case when I put MyLib.dll into common folder. I can't see any difference except of course the CodeBase of the Class I am trying to register under HKCR\Wow6432nodes\CLSID{MYCLSID}\InprocServer32. Another thing I don't understand is there is no sub-key named TypeLib under HKCR\Wow6432nodes\CLSID{MYCLSID} in both cases, which in my understanding is the way to link the TypeLib to the dll
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General > Call .NET from VB6 Thread Tools Display Modes #1 04-27-2011, 07:40 AM rbrodbeck Freshman Join Date: Jun 2008 Posts: 33 Call .NET from VB6 I have an old VB6 http://www.xtremevbtalk.com/general/321056-call-net-vb6.html project that needs to reference/call a new .NET project. My .NET project (ImportProspects) was built http://forums.asp.net/t/1073809.aspx?automation+error+The+system+cannot+find+the+file+specified with the 'Register for COM interop' box checked on machine A. I copied the ImportProspects.dll and ImportProspects.tlb files to machine B (the dev machine for the VB6 project). In the VB6 project I added a reference to ImportProspects.tlb and added the following code: Code: Private Sub mnuUtilitiesImportProspectsTemplates_Click() Dim oImportTemplates As ImportProspects.ImportProspectsEntry Set oImportTemplates = New ImportProspects.ImportProspectsEntry MsgBox oImportTemplates.myFunction End Sub automation error When I execute that code I receive the following error message: Run-time error '429': ActiveX component can't create object What am I doing wrong? rbrodbeck View Public Profile Find all posts by rbrodbeck #2 04-27-2011, 07:50 AM Gruff Bald Mountain Survivor Retired Moderator* Expert * Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Oregon, USA Posts: 6,440 COM components Need to be registered with Windows on the target PC. Did you run RegSvr32 on the system cannot the files you copied? __________________ Burn the land and boil the sea You can't take the sky from me ~T Gruff View Public Profile Find all posts by Gruff #3 04-27-2011, 07:53 AM rbrodbeck Freshman Join Date: Jun 2008 Posts: 33 The TLB cannot be registered. When I try to register the the DLL I get: "...ImportProspects.dll was loaded, but the DLLRegisterServer entry point was not found. The file can not be registered." rbrodbeck View Public Profile Find all posts by rbrodbeck #4 04-27-2011, 07:57 AM rbrodbeck Freshman Join Date: Jun 2008 Posts: 33 Correction, I registered the TLB using regtlib.exe but still can't register the DLL. rbrodbeck View Public Profile Find all posts by rbrodbeck #5 04-27-2011, 08:04 AM rbrodbeck Freshman Join Date: Jun 2008 Posts: 33 Still not getting it to work but here is an update on what I have done... Both the .NET DLL and TLB file were copied over to the VB6 machine. The TLB was registered with regtlib.exe and the DLL was registered regasm.exe with no options. Now when I attempt to execute my code I get the following error: Run-time error '-2147024894 (80070002)': Automation error The system cannot find the file specified. rbrodbeck View Public Profile Find all posts by rbrodbeck #6 04-27-2011, 12:41
ASP.NET Community Standup Forums Help Home/ASP.NET Forums/Advanced ASP.NET/Enterprise Services Integration/automation error, The system cannot find the file specified automation error, The system cannot find the file specified RSS 2 replies Last post Feb 20, 2007 02:47 AM by prasant.swain ‹ Previous Thread|Next Thread › Print Share Twitter Facebook Email Shortcuts Active Threads Unanswered Threads Unresolved Threads Support Options Advanced Search Reply prasant.swai... Member 21 Points 10 Posts automation error, The system cannot find the file specified Feb 10, 2007 03:11 AM|prasant.swain|LINK in my .net application i am using a COM file (that is written in vb 6) . this function internally call another dll and reading the globla.asa file using ASPTypeLibrary .. and when i usethe function in my application it is giving me this error automation error The system cannot find the file specified. :-2147024894 .. Please if anyone have simillar kind of problem then please give me it's solution.. Thanks.. Prasant Swain Reply SGWellens All-Star 124309 Points 10172 Posts Moderator Re: automation error, The system cannot find the file specified Feb 10, 2007 04:29 PM|SGWellens|LINK With depends.exe, you can look at any executable file and see the list of file it needs to run. http://www.dependencywalker.com/ Steve Wellens My blog Reply prasant.swai... Member 21 Points 10 Posts Re: automation error, The system cannot find the file specified Feb 20, 2007 02:47 AM|prasant.swain|LINK Thankyou SG Wellens.. actually i find the problem. that is due to the missing of a registry entry.. And again thank you for providing such a important tool.. Prasant Swain ‹ Previous Thread|Next Thread › This site is managed for Microsoft by Neudesic, LLC. | © 2016 Microsoft. All rights reserved. Privacy Statement| Terms of Use| Contact Us| Advertise With Us| CMS by Umbraco| Hosted on Microsoft Azure Feedback on ASP.NET| File Bugs| Support Lifecycle