Microsoft KB Archive/175803

= PRB: Table Designer Error: Cannot Create or Open This Document =

Article ID: 175803

Article Last Modified on 5/2/2006

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Visual InterDev 1.0 Standard Edition
 * Microsoft Visual Database Tools

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This article was previously published under Q175803



SYMPTOMS
When you attempt to open the Table Designer, you receive one or more of the following errors:

Class not registered

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Cannot create or open this document

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Unable to open Table ' '



CAUSE
The Visual Database Tools DLLs are not registered correctly or are not in the correct folder.



RESOLUTION
Make sure the following DLLs are located in the "\DevStudio\MSDesigners" folder and that each one is properly registered:
 * Mdtsd.dll
 * Mdtsssv.dll

To register the files, use Regsvr32. For example, to register "Mdtsd.dll," you would type the following into the Run dialog box from the Start menu:

regsvr32 "c:\Program Files\DevStudio\MSDesigners\mdtsd.dll"



STATUS
This problem has been resolved in Visual InterDev 6.0.



Steps to Reproduce Behavior
Open a Web project in Visual InterDev that contains a data connection. Right-Click a table in the Data View, and click Design.

If the Table Designer DLLs are not properly registered, one or more of the errors in the SYMPTOMS section above will appear.

