Microsoft Flex Grid no longer works in MS Access 2003

[Jimmy Teeter]

I had written a small application in MS Access 2003 using VBA code and the MS
Flexgrid active X control (this came from my copy of Visual Basic 6.0)
installed on my PC. The program ran great for over a year and now recently
the Flexgrid control is now disabeled in MS Access. I cannot even add a new
Flexgrid control to an Access form, the program will no longer accept it.
This problem just started last week. I wonder if Microsoft had pushed
something out recently to disable this control. I am highly dependent on
using the Flexgrid control in this program.

I would appreciate anybody's help on this matter. I don't know what to do at
this point and I really need this program to work again.

Thank you

 

[Dirk Goldgar]

I had written a small application in MS Access 2003 using VBA code and the
MS
Flexgrid active X control (this came from my copy of Visual Basic 6.0)
installed on my PC. The program ran great for over a year and now recently
the Flexgrid control is now disabeled in MS Access. I cannot even add a
new
Flexgrid control to an Access form, the program will no longer accept it.
This problem just started last week. I wonder if Microsoft had pushed
something out recently to disable this control. I am highly dependent on
using the Flexgrid control in this program.

I would appreciate anybody's help on this matter. I don't know what to do
at
this point and I really need this program to work again.

Yes, as I understand it, the security update identified with KB article
960715 disabled the original FlexGrid control distributed with VB6, due to
an identified vulnerability. See this TechNet advisory article:

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/advisory/960715.mspx

The original FlexGrid is one of the ActiveX controls whose class ID is
mentioned in that article.

Access MVP Graham Mandeno tracked this problem to its lair and posted this
workaround:
<QUOTE>
WORKAROUND:

Another KB article, KB957924, is a cumulative update rollup for VB6.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/957924
It includes newer versions (6.1.98.12) of the above controls that do not
have the security vulnerability.

Unfortunately, this update may only be installed if you have VB6 installed.

However, it is possible to install KB957924 on a machine with VB6 and then
deploy copies of the new OCX files to the affected end-user machines.
</QUOTE>

Microsoft are aware of this unexpected impact and are working on a
resolution.