Article ID: 231393
Article Last Modified on 5/22/2003
APPLIES TO
- Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 Learning Edition
- Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 Professional Edition
- Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 Enterprise Edition
This article was previously published under Q231393
SYMPTOMS
When you navigate to an Active Document that uses Distributed Component Object Model (DCOM), you may receive the following message:
This happens when CliReg32.exe is included in the CAB instead of being downloaded from the Microsoft Web site or installed as a separate CAB from the local server.
CAUSE
When the user packages a DCOM Active Document by using the Visual Basic Package and Deployment Wizard (PDW), the user can include CliReg32.exe in the current CAB. However, this option does not work correctly.
RESOLUTION
To work around the problem, download CliReg32.exe from the Microsoft Web site. Alternatively, you can download Msracli.cab from the Microsoft Web site and refer to in from your local Web server.
STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed that this is a bug in the Microsoft products that are listed at the beginning of this article.
MORE INFORMATION
If you look in the code download error log file, you should see the following error:
To view this file, follow these steps:
- In Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0, click Internet Options on the View menu. Or, in Internet Explorer 5, click Internet Options on the Tools menu.
- On the General tab, click Settings.
- Click View Files.
Click the Name column header to sort the files. You should see at least one file named something like this:
?CodeDownloadErrorLog!name={0000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000}where the zeroes contain the class ID of your Active Document.
- Close the dialog boxes that you opened in steps 2 and 3.
- Drag the error log into Internet Explorer.
Note CliReg32.exe could be packaged in its own CAB but not in the same one as the .vbr or .tlb files. Note that the PDW assumes the .inf file name is Msracli.inf when you choose a local CAB. To avoid changing each .inf file that is generated for any DCOM project, name the .inf in your CLIREG CAB Msracli.inf.
REFERENCES
For additional information about how to troubleshoot this error message, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
167380 PRB: Internet Explorer Reports Unknown Type .VBD for ActiveX Document
For additional information about how to use CLIREG32, click the following article numbers to view the articles in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
194636 HOWTO: Manually Register a VB Remote Component Using CLIREG32
185193 PRB: Clireg32 Fails to Register the Type Library of DCOM Server
221173 PRB: Installing VB6 Doesn't Update Clireg32.exe
For more information, visit the following Microsoft Web site:
How Does Internet Component Download Work?
http://support.microsoft.com/servicedesks/webcasts/wc042500/WC042500.asp
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