FIX: PropertyBag Objects Fail Under COM+ When They Are Passed in Same COM+ Application (297692)


The information in this article applies to:

  • Microsoft COM+ 1.0
This article was previously published under Q297692

SYMPTOMS

When a Microsoft Visual Basic component passes a PropertyBag object as a String to a method of another Visual Basic component in the same COM+ application, the method call may fail with the following error messages:
runtime error 13 - type mismatch

-and-

runtime error 5 - invalid procedure call or argument

RESOLUTION

To resolve this problem, obtain the latest service pack for Windows 2000. For additional information, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

260910 How to Obtain the Latest Windows 2000 Service Pack

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed at the beginning of this article. This problem was first corrected in Windows 2000 Service Pack 2.
Modification Type:MajorLast Reviewed:5/8/2002
Keywords:kbbug kbDSupport kberrmsg kbWin2000PreSP2Fix kbWin2000SP2Fix KB297692
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