OWC with Office 2000-2003

[Chris DiPaolo]

I have an application that uses a combination of OWC9 and OWC10
methods/properties with a Spreadsheet object within an Access database. We
have people with Office 2003 who experience problems with this (because they
don't have MSOWC.DLL?) Is the only way to fix this to create a DLL with the
OWC calls and make two versions (one compiled with msowc.dll and using
OWC9/10 commands and one compiled with owc11.dll using OWC11 supported
commands)?

 

[Alvin Bruney [MVP]]

No, you should try not to mix these dll's in this way because - like your
users are seeing - there may be registration related issues. Instead, you
should use owc11 which may be considered a *superset of owc 9, meaning that
most of the functionality in 9 is available in 11.

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Regards,
Alvin Bruney [MVP ASP.NET]

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