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PRB: The Jet VBA File VBAJet32.dll Failed to Initialize

Article ID: 196057

Article Last Modified on 12/10/2003

Microsoft Visual Basic 5.0 Professional Edition
Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 Professional Edition
Microsoft Visual Basic 5.0 Enterprise Edition
Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 Enterprise Edition
Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0 Enterprise Edition
Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0 Professional Edition
Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0 Standard Edition

This article was previously published under Q196057

SYMPTOMS

If you created a setup program for a DAO application using Visual Basic 5.0 or Visual C++ 5.0 and you upgraded to version 6.0 of those products, you will receive the following runtime error (3447) when you attempt to run the application on a distributed computer:

The Jet VBA file (VBAJet.dll for 16-bit versions, or VBAJet32.dll for 32-bit versions) failed to initialize when called. Try reinstalling the applications that returned the error.

CAUSE

Applications like Visual Basic 6.0 and Visual C++ 6.0 install new versions of the DAO and Jet files on your development computer. Any version of VBAJet32.dll 6.0.1.8132 or later is now dependent on the file Expsrv.dll. The error occurs with your original setup program because it does not include Expsrv.dll in the dependency information.

RESOLUTION

To resolve the error, do one of the following:

Manually add Expsrv.dll to your file list for your existing setup program.
Re-create a new setup program from scratch that includes this new dependency.

MORE INFORMATION

Steps to Reproduce Behavior

Create a DAO application and redistribution using Visual Basic 5.0 or Visual C++ 5.0.
Upgrade the computer to version 6.0 and rebuild your setup file.
Run the version 6.0 setup on a clean computer.

RESULT: When you try to run the application, you receive run-time error 3447.

(c) Microsoft Corporation 1998, All Rights Reserved. Contributions by Rick Anderson, Microsoft Corporation.

Keywords: kbjet kbappsetup kbprb KB196057