Diagram Editor doesn't work in SQLServer 2000

Hi,
All of a sudden the other day my diagram editor stopped working. I really rely on and can't figure out what happened. Everything else works fine. Since the problem started, I installed SP3 and it didn't help. I'm using a 60 day eval version of SQLS
erver which may have something to do with it (I have one licensed copy that I will install on another machine and am ordering another copy at the moment). Anyways, any ideas?
tdk
tdk,
Did you install VB6 SP6? If so you overwrote the working version of
mdt2df.dll. You will need to restore this dll and register it from before
the update. If you didn't you can try installing an older version of
mdt2df.dll.
-Sam Matzen
"tdk" <tdk@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Hi,
> All of a sudden the other day my diagram editor stopped working. I
really rely on and can't figure out what happened. Everything else works
fine. Since the problem started, I installed SP3 and it didn't help. I'm
using a 60 day eval version of SQLServer which may have something to do with
it (I have one licensed copy that I will install on another machine and am
ordering another copy at the moment). Anyways, any ideas?
> tdk
|||I have a similar problem that this causing me all kinds annoyance, in my
case diagrams created in Enterprise Manager are only viewable in EM and
diagrams created though Access (through Access Data Projects) are only
viewable in Access. If I try to view a diagram in one tool that was created
in the other the viewing program crashes. I do have VB6 installed so I
wonder if this is related...any links, additional documentation on this
problem? How would you even know which version of the dll is the proper one
to be compatible with everything?
|||Jon,
All I know is that when I installed VB6 Service Pack 6 it overrode the .dll
and my Enterprise Manager diagrams no longer worked.
I don't think there is any way to view Access diagrams in Enterprise
Manager.
-Sam Matzen
"Jon" <jonremovemewest@.msn.com> wrote in message
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> I have a similar problem that this causing me all kinds annoyance, in my
> case diagrams created in Enterprise Manager are only viewable in EM and
> diagrams created though Access (through Access Data Projects) are only
> viewable in Access. If I try to view a diagram in one tool that was
created
> in the other the viewing program crashes. I do have VB6 installed so I
> wonder if this is related...any links, additional documentation on this
> problem? How would you even know which version of the dll is the proper
one
> to be compatible with everything?
>
|||Ah ha. I found an older version where I unpacked the SQLServer eval version onto my drive (\dir mdt2df.dll /s
Thanks a bunch for the help Samuel.
Tyson
"Samuel L Matzen" wrote:

> tdk,
> Did you install VB6 SP6? If so you overwrote the working version of
> mdt2df.dll. You will need to restore this dll and register it from before
> the update. If you didn't you can try installing an older version of
> mdt2df.dll.
> -Sam Matzen
>
> "tdk" <tdk@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:9340199E-172E-436A-84CA-275B77CDD642@.microsoft.com...
> really rely on and can't figure out what happened. Everything else works
> fine. Since the problem started, I installed SP3 and it didn't help. I'm
> using a 60 day eval version of SQLServer which may have something to do with
> it (I have one licensed copy that I will install on another machine and am
> ordering another copy at the moment). Anyways, any ideas?
>
>
|||Thanks Samuel, I definitely do have VB SP6 on my machine. I am fairly certain it was installed later than SQLServer. The version of MDT2DF.DLL that I have is 2.0.0.9586, which from what I can gather about version updates on the msdn site is a fairly ne
w version. The question is, how do I get an old version of just that dll? Once I have it, I know how to register it (asusming it's a COM dll, regsvr32).
Tyson
"Samuel L Matzen" wrote:

> tdk,
> Did you install VB6 SP6? If so you overwrote the working version of
> mdt2df.dll. You will need to restore this dll and register it from before
> the update. If you didn't you can try installing an older version of
> mdt2df.dll.
> -Sam Matzen
>
> "tdk" <tdk@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:9340199E-172E-436A-84CA-275B77CDD642@.microsoft.com...
> really rely on and can't figure out what happened. Everything else works
> fine. Since the problem started, I installed SP3 and it didn't help. I'm
> using a 60 day eval version of SQLServer which may have something to do with
> it (I have one licensed copy that I will install on another machine and am
> ordering another copy at the moment). Anyways, any ideas?
>
>