VB.NET app and Access DB backend

[rjoubert]

I have a thick VB.NET client application talking to an Access 2000 database backend. The database sits on a file server, while the client app sits on each user's PC. The user have recently been upgraded to Access 2003.

The users are getting an intermittent error where the app has trouble reading from or connecting to the database. The error reads "Could not open database ''. It may be a database your application recognizes..."

I've read somewhere about issues with opening a database created in Access 2000, with Access 2003. Could this the problem my users are having? Any other suggestions?

 

[rjoubert]

I did some more googling and found a possible fix on Microsoft's Support site. I've deployed this fix out to the users...now I just have to wait and see if it helps at all. Here's the link in case anyone else is having the same issue...

http://music.msn.com/music/article.aspx?news=226220

 

[rjoubert]

Sorry...wrong link...try this one...

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;310937

 

[rjoubert]

For those of you who have seen this error, the fix that Microsoft suggested (see link in previous post) seems to have worked.