I hate to be a kill joy, but if you the programmer fail to do your job and
handle your own errors -- even in Unix - just what do think the error
message will be?


-----Original Message-----
From: Vinnie (Mailinglists Only) [mailto:vinnie@j...]
Sent: Wednesday, December 04, 2002 9:21 PM
To: professional vb
Subject: [pro_vb] Re: Method ~ of object ~ failed

Bugs .... thats why I personaly like to work on Linux ...but the management
want a windows network.

Greetings, Vinnie

----- Original Message -----
From: "Marco Straforini" <marco.straforini@c...>
To: "professional vb" <pro_vb@p...>
Sent: Wednesday, December 04, 2002 10:36 PM
Subject: [pro_vb] Re: Method ~ of object ~ failed


> ciao Mark,
>
> The run time error 80010108 is dreadful indeed. It is a COM error,
> sometimes it is programmer's fault (passing a wrong object and
> using late binding), sometimes it is an installation problem
> (accessing a wrong dll) but can be also a Microsoft bug.
> The reason why the message is so cryptic is because the error is
> within a module that does not know its name or the name of
> the method is trying to call. Quite unfortunate.
>
> Few suggestions: pass objects byval instead of byref, double check all
> your project references, do not use late binding and do a search of
> "Method ~ of object ~ failed"
> (within quote) in the MSDN library instead of Google, you will
> get much more useful information. There are many Microsoft bug
> fixes for this problem.
>
> Good luck,
> Marco
>
>