[ASP/VBscript] Test for MDAC version?

#1 11-07-2005, 06:50 AM

Hi,

We have a ASP/VBscript webapplication which runs without problems on lots of webservers.
However, recently we installed the application on a shared hosting account for one of our clients and we've had nothing but trouble with it.

Currently we're having some vague problems again and I would like to verify that the webserver is running MDAC 2.6 or higher.
Can that be tested online with ASP?

Regards,
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Marja Ribbers-de Vroed

#2 11-07-2005, 07:18 AM

Marja Ribbers wrote:
> Hi,
>
> We have a ASP/VBscript webapplication which runs without problems on
> lots of webservers.
> However, recently we installed the application on a shared hosting
> account for one of our clients and we've had nothing but trouble with
> it.
>
> Currently we're having some vague problems again and I would like to
> verify that the webserver is running MDAC 2.6 or higher.
> Can that be tested online with ASP?
>
You can look at the Connection's Version property, but that is no guarantee:
the server could have a corrupted MDAC installation, a coondition that can
only be diagnosed using the free Component Checker available at
msdn.microsoft.com.

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#3 11-07-2005, 10:48 AM

Thank you for your reply.

We checked it with:

set cn=Server.CreateObject("ADODB.Connection")
Response.Write cn.Version

and it turns out this particular server was still running MDAC 2.5, so that may well have been the problem.

The host has updated the server to MDAC 2.81 now, so I hope everything will run smoothly from now on.

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Marja

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