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

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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

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runtime error 5 - invalid procedure call or argument

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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 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/260910/EN-US/ ) How to Obtain the Latest Windows 2000 Service Pack

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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.

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APPLIES TO

Microsoft COM+ 1.0

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kbbug kberrmsg kbfix kbwin2000presp2fix KB297692

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