Dear Excel Experts,
Please help!
p.s. Rolling back the patch did not help.
Gary


"Joe Wu [MSFT]" wrote in
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Dear Gary,

Thank your for your post.

I learned that the problem began to occur after applying
the new MS03-026
security patch. However, I think the current news group
is not the best
one
for this problem. To resolve this problem, you may need
to check the code
which uses the Excel OCX to generate the Excel reports.
Therefore, I
suggest that you post this question in the
microsoft.public.excel.programming news groups, which is
primarily for
issues involving Excel development.

The reason why we recommend posting appropriately is you
will get the most
qualified pool of respondents, and other partners who
read the newsgroups
regularly can either share their knowledge or learn from
your interaction
with us. I hope the problem can be resolved quickly.

Thank you for using our News Group.

Regards,
Joe Wu
Product Support Services
Microsoft Corporation

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|From: "Gary Lam"
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|Subject: SQL server failed to call Excel's library
after ms03-026 patch
applied
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|Hello,
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|We have a SQL2K Ent. on W2K Eng. Adv server. This server
|also has MS-Office97 installed because it needs to run a
|night job and call Excel's library to generate reports
in
|Excel format.
|It failed to do that after the patch been applied. Excel
|returns error message shows "-2147417851 (Method "~" of
|object "~" failed)
|Please help!!
|Gary

Gary,

Can you run the Excel application from that box or do you get the same
error? If you can describe the data environment of your application and
what you are doing in Excel in some detail?

Thanks,

Jim

Jim Vita
Microsoft Developer Support

Microsoft Security Announcement: Have you installed the patch for Microsoft
Security Bulletin MS03-026?*If not Microsoft strongly advises you to review
the information at the following link regarding Microsoft Security Bulletin
MS03-026 http://www.microsoft.com/security/se...s/ms03-026.asp
and/or to visit Windows Update at http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com to
install the patch. Running the SCAN program from the Windows Update site
will help to insure you are current with all security patches, not just
MS03-026.

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Gary,

After consulting some more with my collegues, it appears that this may be a
known issue. As a workaround try modifying your code to use late, instead
of early binding.

Example:

Instead of:

Dim oApp as Excel.Application

use:

Dim oApp as object


Thanks,

Jim

Jim Vita
Microsoft Developer Support

Microsoft Security Announcement: Have you installed the patch for Microsoft
Security Bulletin MS03-026?*If not Microsoft strongly advises you to review
the information at the following link regarding Microsoft Security Bulletin
MS03-026 http://www.microsoft.com/security/se...s/ms03-026.asp
and/or to visit Windows Update at http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com to
install the patch. Running the SCAN program from the Windows Update site
will help to insure you are current with all security patches, not just
MS03-026.

This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.