DOCUMENT:Q168161  22-AUG-1997  [vbwin]
TITLE   :FIX: Distributed Transaction Fails on Subsequent Runs
PRODUCT :Microsoft Visual Basic for Windows
PROD/VER:5.0 97
OPER/SYS:NT WINDOWS
KEYWORDS:vb5all VB5FixlistSP1 VBKBRDO VS97FixlistSP2 VS97FixlistSP1 VB5FixlistSP2

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

CAUSE
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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
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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 Pack 1 - What, Where, and Why
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Keywords          : vb5all VB5FixlistSP1 VBKBRDO VS97FixlistSP2 VS97FixlistSP1 VB5FixlistSP2
Version           : 5.0 97
Platform          : NT WINDOWS
Issue type        : kbbug
Solution Type     : kbfix

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