a5controls.dll does not register

[forskare]

My laptop has a dual boot system, Vista Home Premium and XP Pro. The hard drive is set up with 3 partitions, C, D and Recovery. I installed v8 and v9 using XP Pro on drive D, the drive where XP Pro is installed. I also booted up with Vista and put a shortcut on the Vista desktop to XP Pro. I've tried to do the same with Vista but get this message:

Error running addin 'Startup+100_rRegister+Controls' :Could not open OLE object
'{80C2583C-A05B-44B8-851E-95B288CA2CDE}'
Error running addin 'Startup_a5controls' :Could not open OLE object
'a5controls.resources.9'
Error running addin 'startup_xdialog_context' :Could notopen OLE object
'a5contexteval.contexteval.9'

I followed Selwyn's advice, sort of. I ssay sort of because I presume those files must be registered on Drive C where Vista is installed. However, the registration fails with this error message:

The module "D:\Program Files\A5v9\a5controls.dll" was loaded but the call to DllRegisterServer failed with error code 0X80020009.

For more information, search online using the error code as a search term.

A quick search revealed quite a number of folks who have received this error message and everyone with a different scenario than mine. I'm not about to try those suggestions.

I suppose I could also install v9 with Vista on drive C but thought I would post this first to see if anyone else has encountered this problem matching my situation and/or to solicit suggestions.

Thanks,

kenn

[Selwyn Rabins]

Re: a5controls.dll does not register

My laptop has a dual boot system, Vista Home Premium and XP Pro. The hard drive is set up with 3 partitions, C, D and Recovery. I installed v8 and v9 using XP Pro on drive D, the drive where XP Pro is installed. I also booted up with Vista and put a shortcut on the Vista desktop to XP Pro. I've tried to do the same with Vista but get this message:

Error running addin 'Startup+100_rRegister+Controls' :Could not open OLE object
'{80C2583C-A05B-44B8-851E-95B288CA2CDE}'
Error running addin 'Startup_a5controls' :Could not open OLE object
'a5controls.resources.9'
Error running addin 'startup_xdialog_context' :Could notopen OLE object
'a5contexteval.contexteval.9'

I followed Selwyn's advice, sort of. I ssay sort of because I presume those files must be registered on Drive C where Vista is installed. However, the registration fails with this error message:

The module "D:\Program Files\A5v9\a5controls.dll" was loaded but the call to DllRegisterServer failed with error code 0X80020009.

For more information, search online using the error code as a search term.

A quick search revealed quite a number of folks who have received this error message and everyone with a different scenario than mine. I'm not about to try those suggestions.

I suppose I could also install v9 with Vista on drive C but thought I would post this first to see if anyone else has encountered this problem matching my situation and/or to solicit suggestions.

Thanks,

kenn

you might have to turn off Vista UAC before trying to register controls.

[forskare]

Re: a5controls.dll does not register

you might have to turn off Vista UAC before trying to register controls.

Hi Selwyn,

I'll give it a try but but first, what is Vista UAC and how do I access it?

Thanks,

kenn

[Daryl Grace]

Re: a5controls.dll does not register

Ken,
Try right clicking the icon on the desktop and choose run as administrator. You should only have to do this once. It should run fine the next time. I had to this a couple of vista machines that did not register controls on install.

Daryl

[Selwyn Rabins]

Re: a5controls.dll does not register

Hi Selwyn,

I'll give it a try but but first, what is Vista UAC and how do I access it?

Thanks,

kenn

UAC is User Account Control

Search in the Vista Help for 'Turn User Account Control Off'

[DaveM]

Re: a5controls.dll does not register

Ken,

The following code is in a correct.bat file(written for a v7 app). On deploying my app, it is run after the install to register the controls. This seems to cover them all. I have since changed to astrum installer and can do the registration without this bat file. I still include it in case I get the error on startup.

'change the path to match your alpha install!
 
regsvr32.exe c:\ups55\a5controls.dll /s
regsvr32.exe c:\ups55\A5ContextEval.dll /s
regsvr32.exe c:\ups55\SimpleChart4Lite.dll /s
regsvr32.exe c:\ups55\Codejock.PropertyGrid.v9.81.ocx /s

Like Selwin said, UAC must be turned off. Another tidbit: Vista will sometimes bug you to death about turning it off, but there is a way to turn off the reminders too. Make sure you have admin rights including rights to the registry for the registration to work.

[forskare]

Re: a5controls.dll does not register

Ken,
Try right clicking the icon on the desktop and choose run as administrator. You should only have to do this once. It should run fine the next time. I had to this a couple of vista machines that did not register controls on install.

Daryl

Following Selwyn's advice, I turned the UAC off and rebooted. I also followed Daryl's advice by right clicking on the desktop icon and selected Run as Administrator. All the error messages which had appeared are now gone. That's good! But, now there is another error message:

Error running addin 'Startup_A5controls' 'A5controls.resources.9'

[forskare]

Re: a5controls.dll does not register

Ken,
Try right clicking the icon on the desktop and choose run as administrator. You should only have to do this once. It should run fine the next time. I had to this a couple of vista machines that did not register controls on install.

Daryl

Following Selwyn's advice, I turned the UAC off and rebooted. I also followed Daryl's advice by right clicking on the desktop icon and selected Run as Administrator. All the error messages which had appeared are now gone. That's good! But, now there is another error message:

Error running addin 'Startup_A5controls' 'A5controls.resources.9'

What else might I try?

Thanks, kenn

[forskare]

Re: a5controls.dll does not register

OK, Solved the issue. I opened: Program Files/a5v9, right clicked on the A5.controls file and selected Open With/Microsoft Register Server. The first time I tried it, I got the same error message as before but the 2nd time, it went through and the file is now registered.

Thanks to all to provided suggestions which will no doubt help others as well.

kenn

[[email protected]]

Re: a5controls.dll does not register

I'm using XP.
I just opened an .adb that was created in V7 looking for some code. I opened it using V9 platinum. Now I get the same message as Ken


Error running addin 'Startup_a5controls' :Could not open OLE object
'a5controls.resources.9'

I remember this problem in previous versions too. Can't Alpha figure out this issue?
URG...

Bill Belanger

[Selwyn Rabins]

Re: a5controls.dll does not register

I'm using XP.
I just opened an .adb that was created in V7 looking for some code. I opened it using V9 platinum. Now I get the same message as Ken


Error running addin 'Startup_a5controls' :Could not open OLE object
'a5controls.resources.9'

I remember this problem in previous versions too. Can't Alpha figure out this issue?
URG...

Bill Belanger

we have figured it out.

i don't know why you are getting this error.

i can run any version of a5 on my machine - simulataneously or sequentially - without problem.

i suggest that you just reboot your computer and manually register
a5controls.dll and a5contexteval.dll in both your a5v9, a5v8 and a5v7 program folders and see if that solves it for you.

[[email protected]]

Re: a5controls.dll does not register

Thanks Selwyn.
You say you have this figured this out, but with all due respect, I don't think you do. I've read this thread going back to V5, and just because it works on your computer means absolutely nothing to me, because I'm not using your computer.

Why don't you write us a program "patch" that does this manual register thing you're asking us to do?

Bill Belanger

[rmssoftware]

Re: a5controls.dll does not register

I started using Astrum Installer seberal years ago and it works better than most and is easy to use. I use the Advanced button to mark each file that needs to be registered as both registered and shared. Other files like fonts for bar codes that I install in the Windows\Fonts folder I mark as shared. This works great for registering the controls. Then click on the Icon and select Run as Administrator

[Selwyn Rabins]

Re: a5controls.dll does not register

Thanks Selwyn.
You say you have this figured this out, but with all due respect, I don't think you do. I've read this thread going back to V5, and just because it works on your computer means absolutely nothing to me, because I'm not using your computer.

Why don't you write us a program "patch" that does this manual register thing you're asking us to do?

Bill Belanger

with all due respect, we have.

[[email protected]]

Re: a5controls.dll does not register

Were is this patch? Do I just reinstall A5? Just to be clear, this is the full version of A5V9 platinum on the computer I'm doing development with, not a runtime or a client install. It was working fine until I tried to open an older database this morning.

Bill Belanger