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FIX: CompactJetRepository Only Recognizes Lowercase Jet db Names

Article ID: 169308

Article Last Modified on 11/18/2003

Microsoft Visual Basic 5.0 Learning Edition
Microsoft Visual Basic 5.0 Professional Edition
Microsoft Visual Basic 5.0 Enterprise Edition

This article was previously published under Q169308

SYMPTOMS

CompactJetRepository doesn't recognize a database as a Jet database if the .MDB portion is capitalized.

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a bug in the Microsoft products listed at the beginning of this article. This has been fixed with Visual Studio Service Pack 1.

For additional information about the Visual Studio 97 Service Pack 1, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

170365 INFO: Visual Studio 97 Service Packs - What, Where, and Why

MORE INFORMATION

Steps to Reproduce Problem

Pass an uppercase path to a valid Jet database to the CompactJetRepository function.

Expected:

No error.

Results:

Can only compact Jet databases (*.mdb).

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