Reference libraries

[Laurie via AccessMonster.com]

I am experiencing odd results when trying to install an Access application
onto customer machines. An error message advises me that the 'Web Components
Function Library" is missing. After installing it and de-selecting the
"MISSING" reference. All is well. However if I then return to the reference
section and de-select the "Web Components" reference my application still
runs quite happily and without further complaint !

Can anyone explain what is going on and why the system might 'think' that it
needs that reference anyway (As far as I know I am doing nothing that needs
web support)?

Can these references be added automatically if they are required?

Thanks, Laurie

 

[Tony Toews [MVP]]

I am experiencing odd results when trying to install an Access application
onto customer machines. An error message advises me that the 'Web Components
Function Library" is missing. After installing it and de-selecting the
"MISSING" reference. All is well. However if I then return to the reference
section and de-select the "Web Components" reference my application still
runs quite happily and without further complaint !

Can anyone explain what is going on and why the system might 'think' that it
needs that reference anyway (As far as I know I am doing nothing that needs
web support)?

The OWC?? reference was almost certainly added in the dim past when it
was converted from a previous version of Access to whatever version of
Access you are now running. So if you can remove it from the list
of references on your system and compiling works then no problem.

Can these references be added automatically if they are required?

You can't change the references in an MDE. The only time I've ever
wanted to change references in code was when converting an MDB on a
daily basis from A97 to A2000. The conversion process automatically
added two references which I wanted to delete. So I set up the code
to delete those.

(As part of this process the code went on to create A97 and A2000 MDEs
and move them up to the server. This whole process took several
minutes so I wanted it to run unattended.)

But the above is an unusual case. Generally there'd never be a reason
to change references via code.

Tony
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