>I am setting up a stand alone copy of my vfp system on a new computer for the first time. The vfp system calls a small visual basic exe when the user selects an olecontrol. On the stand alone system, I get the same error whether I run the vfp system and select the olecontrol, or whether I try to run the visual basic exe on its own outside of vfp.
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>The error message is:
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>run time error '713'
>Application defined or object defined error.
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>Is the error routine in the visual basic exe causing this or is it something else, like missing a file necessary to properly run the visual basic exe?

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