Microsoft KB Archive/168161

= FIX: Distributed Transaction Fails on Subsequent Runs =

Article ID: 168161

Article Last Modified on 12/10/2003

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Visual Basic 5.0 Enterprise Edition
 * Microsoft Visual Studio 97 Service Pack 3
 * Microsoft Visual C++ 5.0 Enterprise Edition
 * Microsoft Visual C++ 5.0 Professional Edition

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This article was previously published under Q168161



SYMPTOMS
Using distributed transactions from RDO 2.0 may generating an error stating that the connection is invalid.



CAUSE
The problem may occur when RDO loads the Distributed Transaction Coordinator (DTC) components after having previously unloaded them. RDO no longer unloads the DTC components when it is unloaded from memory. The DTC components are then unloaded when the process ends.



STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed this to be a bug in the Microsoft products listed at the beginning of this article. This bug has been corrected in version 5.00.3817 of the file msrdo20.dll, which is included in Visual Studio 97 Service Pack 1.

For additional information about the Visual Studio 97 Service Pack 1, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

170365 INFO: Visual Studio 97 Service Packs - What, Where, and Why

Keywords: kbbug kbfix kbvbp500sp2fix kbvs97sp1fix kbvs97sp2fix kbvbp500sp1fix KB168161

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