BUG: PDW Does Not Include CLSID in Default HTML Page for IE 3.X

ID: Q192783

The information in this article applies to:

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

SYMPTOMS

The Package and Deployment Wizard- (PDW) generated HTML page for IE 3.x will not contain the CLSID for an ActiveX Document EXE.

RESOLUTION

Use REGEDIT to determine CLSID for your project and manually enter the CLSID in the PDW generated HTML page.

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a bug in the Microsoft products listed at the beginning of this article.

MORE INFORMATION

Steps to Reproduce Behavior

Start Visual Basic 6.0 and select ActiveX Document EXE.

Save the project as follows:

"C:\Test\project1.vbp"

Start the Visual Basic 6.0 Package and Deployment Wizard, click the "Package" button, and compile the project.

Select "Internet Package," and go through to the "Finished" step using the default options.

Click "Finish," and then generate the setup program.

Result:

The generated PDW HTML page does not contain CLSID as shown in the example below:


      <HTML>
      <HEAD>
      <TITLE>YourProject.CAB</TITLE>
      </HEAD>
      <BODY>

      <a href=UserDocument1.VBD>UserDocument1.VBD</a>
      <!--*********** Comment Begin **********
       Internet Explorer Version 3.x HTML
       ====================================
       The following HTML code has been commented
       out and provided for ActiveX User Documents
       download support in IE 3.x only. This
       HTML script may not work properly in later
       versions of Internet Explorer.

       Additional information about downloading
       ActiveX User Documents in IE 3.x can be
       found in Microsoft's Online support on the
       internet at http://support.microsoft.com.
       *********** Comment End   ********** -->

      <!--*********** Comment Begin **********
      <HTML>
      <OBJECT ID="UserDocument1"
      CLASSID="CLSID:"
      CODEBASE="g1.CAB#version=1,0,0,0">
      </OBJECT>

      <SCRIPT LANGUAGE="VBScript">
      Sub Window_OnLoad
       Document.Open
       Document.Write "<FRAMESET>"
       Document.Write "<FRAME SRC=""UserDocument1.VBD"">"
       Document.Write "</FRAMESET>"
       Document.Close
      End Sub
      </SCRIPT>
      </HTML>
       *********** Comment End   ********** -->

      </BODY>
      </HTML>

REFERENCES

For additional information, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

Q190046 : INFO: VB6 Readme Part 6 - Wizard Issues

Keywords : kbwizard kbActiveDocs kbAppSetup kbVBp kbVBp600
Version : WINDOWS:6.0
Platform : WINDOWS
Issue type : kbbug