FIX: Distributed Transaction Fails on Subsequent Runs

 Last reviewed: December 18, 1997
Article ID: Q168161
The information in this article applies to:
  • Microsoft Visual Basic Enterprise Edition for Windows, version 5.0
  • Microsoft Visual Studio 97
  • Microsoft Visual C++, 32-bit Editions, version 5.0

SYMPTOMS

Using distributed transactions from RDO 2.0 may generating an error stating that the connection is invalid.

CAUSE

The problem may occur when RDO loads the Distributed Transaction Coordinator (DTC) components after having previously unloaded them. RDO no longer unloads the DTC components when it is unloaded from memory. The DTC components are then unloaded when the process ends.

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a bug in the Microsoft products listed at the beginning of this article. This bug has been corrected in version 5.00.3817 of the file msrdo20.dll, which is included in Visual Studio 97 Service Pack 1.

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

   ARTICLE-ID: Q170365
   TITLE     : INFO: Visual Studio 97 Service Packs - What, Where, and Why

Keywords          : vb5all VB5FixlistSP1 VBKBRDO VS97FixlistSP3 VS97FixlistSP2 VS97FixlistSP1 VB5FixlistSP2
Version           : 5.0 97
Platform          : NT WINDOWS
Issue type        : kbbug
Solution Type     : kbfix kbservicepack

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Last reviewed: December 18, 1997
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