>>>>On my computer I have MSCOMM32.OCX versions dated 8/21/96, 1/16/97 and 7/19/97. The first is from VFP5.0, and I'm not sure WHERE the others came from, although I expect that one came form the SP2 update and possibly the other from PC-Anywhere.
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>>>>The problem is that VFP 5.0a (SP2 update) ONLY works if the 8/21/96 version is registered. This caused a major problem the other day when I made a minor code change and recompiled the form with the OCX - none of the properties worked correctly, although the 8/21/96 version was correctly installed on my client's computers.
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>>>>Does anyone have any information about the different versions? The 1997 versions have properties not found in the earlier one, and these properties show in VFP with OLE error codes.
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>>>>In testing, I registered each OCX in turn, added it to VFP and placed it on a new form.
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>>>How do you register different versions of the same OCX?
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>>>Vlad
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>>Gosh I hate seeing a typo in my title :-(
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>>Vlad, I registered one, did all the testing, then renamed it and registered the next. I have all 3 with different names so I can copy and register the one I want.
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>Ok. I thought you registered all in the same time. Did you unregistered each version before registering the next one?
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>Vlad

Yes - and they were all registered as MSCOMM32.OCX