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VS.NET 2003 and Office 2003?

by miseldine

Just in case anyone’s having the same problem as the one described below…

When using the Server Explorer in VS.NET, whenever I went to add a new data connection, a popup would appear saying “Unable to add Data Connection. Some program files are not properly registered on your machine. Run the Setup program again”.

Well, I’ve got SQL Server 2000 locally, VS.NET was on complete install, nothing seemed to be missing. However, after an email to Microsoft Support, the problem seems to be that Office 2003 removes 2 DLLs required by VS.NET and makes local copies of them (I guess so they can be sure of the correct version being used). Anyway, simply copy the files “MSVCR71.DLL” and “MSVCP71.DLL” from the directory “[Program Files]\Microsoft Office\OFFICE11\VS Runtime” into your “Windows\System32″ directory. Make sure they’re “71″ not “70″ as I originally did!

Reboot VS.NET and Server Explorer should work a treat. If not, cry :)

This entry was posted on Sunday, August 29th, 2004 at 6:51 pm, contains 151 words, and is filed under .NET. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed. The views and opinions in this blog post are those of its author.

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  1. senthil kumar s Says:
    May 8th, 2008 at 8:07 pm

    while adding the connection in vb.net server explore i got such such kind of error in messagbox
    Unable to add data connection

    The DataConnectionDialog Could not be Initialized

    how to solve this problems

     

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