Error 429 when trying to create CognosImpromptu.Application

[BluByU]

I have written a VB 6.0 (SP6) application that allows the user to view Cognos reports without having to go through the Impromptu Administrator application. It runs fine on my development machine (of course). I created an install package using the package and deployment wizard, and when I distribute it to one of our users, he gets an error 429, "ActiveX component cannot create object", when it trys to launch the Cognos report.

The installation package installs the ImpAdmin.exe file on the users machine. Am I missing something else? I am hoping that I will not have to install the Impromptu Administrator appllication on all of the users machines. Any ideas? Thanks!

 

[BobRodes]

That usually means that you're missing some sort of file that th eapplication depends on. Two things you can do: first, see what line your compiled version is erroring out on (you'll have to do this using error handling routines), and second, go through all of the files listed in the PDW and make sure that one of the ones your application needs isn't missing.

Welcome to DLL Hell....

Good Luck,

Bob

 

[zemp]

Might also be that the required file is installed but NOT registered with the OS properly.

Could also be a file version conflict. For example your app requires version 1.0 of a file but the target computer already has version 1.1 installed. So the PDW will not overwrite the newer version and your app can fail.

As Bob said, welcome to dll hell

zemp