BUG: Add-Ins Only Visible to the User Who Installs VB

ID: Q190212

The information in this article applies to:

Microsoft Visual Basic Learning, Professional, and Enterprise Editions for Windows, version 6.0

SYMPTOMS

After you install Visual Basic and log on to the machine as a different user (with or without administrator privileges), you cannot see any Add-Ins in the Add-In dialog in Visual Basic.

CAUSE

Visual Basic retrieves available Add-Ins based on the CurrentUser Settings in the Registry. When a user logs on to a machine and launches Visual Basic, Visual Basic determines which Add-ins to load by checking on the CurrentUser keys. Because users who log on to the system have their individual settings, Visual Basic will load Add-Ins differently for different users.

RESOLUTION

To resolve the issue the Add-Ins need to be registered for each user. There are two possible ways to update the registry with the necessary information:

Manually register each Add-In for each user using the Regsvr32.exe utility. For example, the following command line shows how to register the Package and Deployment Wizard Add-In:

<Path to regsvr32.exe>\regsvr32.exe <Path to Add-In>\pdaddin.dll

NOTE: The above line should be modified to reflect the correct path information.

This workaround would have to be done by each user and for each Add-In the user requires. For a list of available Add-Ins and where they are located please see the "More Information" section in this article.

Export the necessary registry entries and import them into the registry while logged in as the appropriate user. The steps below describe how to do this:

Step-By-Step

IMPORTANT: This article contains information about editing the registry. Before you edit the registry, make sure you understand how to restore it if a problem occurs. For information about how to do this, view the "Restoring the Registry" Help topic in Regedit.exe or the "Restoring a Registry Key" Help topic in Regedt32.exe.

Run the Registry Editor, RegEdit.Exe.

Locate the following registry key:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Visual Basic\6.0\Addins

Choose Export Registry File from the Registry menu to create a .Reg file.

Follow steps 3 and 4 again for the following key:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Visual Basic\6.0\AddInToolbar

Logoff the NT machine.

Log on as a different user.

Locate and double click the two .Reg files created above to update the registry with the proper information.

Once all the Add-Ins are available to you, you may run into the following error when you attempt to create a data form in the Application Wizard:

You do not have the proper license to load the Data Form Wizard. You must have the Professional or Enterprise edition of Visual Basic Installed!

To resolve this error, follow these steps:

Log into your computer as a user who is a member of the Administrators group.

Click the Start button, and then click Run. In the Open box, type "regedt32" (without the quotation marks), and then click OK.

In the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE window, double-click Software, then double-click Classes, and then double-click Licenses.

While Licenses is open, click Permissions on the Security menu.

In the Registry Key Permissions dialog box, click to select the "Replace Permission on Existing Subkeys" check box. In the Name list, click Everyone once so it is selected, and then click Full Control in the Type Of Access list. Click OK.

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a bug in the Microsoft products listed at the beginning of this article. We are researching this bug and will post new information here in the Microsoft Knowledge Base as it becomes available.

MORE INFORMATION

The following table shows where the Add-In files are located.

NOTE: The locations below should be preceded with the following path:

c:\program files\microsoft visual studio

The above path assumes Visual Basic was installed to its default location.


Add-In Name                          Location
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Package And Deployment Wizard        \VB98\Wizards\PDWizard\PDADDIN.DLL
VB 6 ActiveX Ctrl Interface Wizard   \VB98\Wizards\CTRLWIZ.DLL
VB 6 ActiveX Doc Migration Wizard    \VB98\Wizards\AXDOCWIZ.DLL
VB 6 Add-In Toolbar                  \VB98\Wizards\AITOOL.DLL
VB 6 API Viewer                      \Common\Tools\Winapi\APILOAD.EXE
VB 6 Application Wizard              \VB98\Wizards\APPWIZ.OCX
VB 6 Class Builder Utility           \VB98\Wizards\CLSSBLD.DLL
VB 6 Data Form Wizard                \VB98\Wizards\DATAFORM.OCX
VB 6 Data Object Wizard              \VB98\Wizards\MSDATOBJ.DLL
VB 6 Property Page Wizard            \VB98\Wizards\PROPPGWZ.DLL
VB 6 Resource Editor                 \VB98\Wizards\RESEDIT.DLL
VB 6 Template Manager                \VB98\Wizards\TEMPMGR.DLL
VB 6 Wizard Manager                  \VB98\Wizards\WIZMAN.DLL
VB T-SQL Debugger                    \VB98\Tsql\VBSDIADD.DLL
Visual Component Manager 6.0         \Common\Tools\VCM\VCMMGR.DLL
Visual Modeler Add-In                \Common\Tools\VS-Ent98\vmodeler\ 
                                        RVBADDIN.DLL
Visual Modeler Menus Add-In          \Common\Tools\VS-Ent98\vmodeler\ 
                                        RVBADDINMENUS.DLL
                                     \Common\Tools\VS-Ent98\vmodeler\ 
                                        RVBRESO.DLL

Additional query words: kbDSupport kbAddIn kbdss kbVBp600bug kbVBp

Keywords : kbGrpVB
Version : WINDOWS:6.0
Platform : WINDOWS
Issue type : kbbug