OWC9 -> OWC11 compatibility issue?

[Nathaniel Richards]

I am running a website for a company that runs Office 2k
across its enterprise. The website uses the OWC9 (office
2k version of the OWC) for displaying some data for
reporting purposes.

Here is an example OBJECT tag:

<object id=Spreadsheet1 style="LEFT: 0px; TOP: 0px"
height="85%" width="100%" classid=clsid:0002E510-0000-0000-
C000-000000000046 VIEWASTEXT>
<param name="HTMLURL" value="">
<param name="DataType" value="CSVDATA">
<param name="CSVData" value="<%=RemoveQuotes
(sdata)%>">
<param name="AutoFit" value="-1">
<param name="DisplayColHeaders" value="-1">
<param name="DisplayGridlines" value="-1">
<param name="DisplayHorizontalScrollBar" value="-
1">
<param name="DisplayRowHeaders" value="-1">
<param name="DisplayTitleBar" value="-1">
<param name="DisplayToolbar" value="-1">
<param name="DisplayVerticalScrollBar" value="-1">
<param name="EnableAutoCalculate" value="-1">
<param name="EnableEvents" value="-1">
<param name="MoveAfterReturn" value="-1">
<param name="MoveAfterReturnDirection" value="0">
<param name="RightToLeft" value="0">
<param name="ViewableRange" value="1:65536">
</object>

I did not write the original version of the site, but am
in charge of maintaining it now.

Recently our IT guy took it upon himself to upgrade a few
people to Office 2003 without speaking to anyone else.
They can no loger use these pages, as the ActiveX DLL
cannot be loaded to serve up this GUID now.

A few questions:
1) Are the successive OWC versions not backward-
compatible? I.e. shouldn't a new form of the client be
able to support activation requests for older
GUIDs/versions?
2) I looked in one of these Office 2k3 Machines'
registries and found the only location for this GUID in
the "HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorere\ActiveX
Compatibility" key. Compatibility Flags was set to:
0x00040000. Any ideas on this? I'm not that familiar
with the function of this particular area of the registry.
3) What's the easiest way to fix this?

Thanks!

Nate

 

[Thao Moua [ms]]

Each OWC version has a new GUID. The OWC11 Spreadsheet
GUID is 0002E559-0000-0000-C000-000000000046.

Thao Moua
OWC Webchart Support

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[Guest]

So, then I could install OWC9 on these machines, and they
should work right? I mean, it's just an ActiveX DLL...?

Thanks,

Nate

 

[Guest]

Fixed it -- just ran the OWC.MSI from the Office 2k CD.
Probably needs to be patched now... but anyhow, it runs.

Thanks,

Nate

 

[John MacLaren]

I have mostly owc10 clients right now but a few are moving to Office
2003, is there some way to detect that to show the correct GUID in a
mixed client environment ?

It is not feasible for us to update all clients to owc11 as of yet.

 

[Alvin]

I have a sniffer on my site
http://www.networkip.net/tidbits/Sniffer.htm

you would need to modify the createobject to test for owc11

regards

 

[Kyra]

This web page is not found... anyone have the sample
code? Thanks,
Kyra

 

[Alvin Bruney]

here is an updated link to the site
http://www.networkip.net/dotnet/tidbits/default.htm

and here is the complete code found on the site
Sub CheckForOWC()

Dim objOWC

Dim retval on error resume next

Dim downloadPath downloadPath =
"http://download.microsoft.com/download/OfficeXPStandard/owc10/1033/WIN98MeX
P/EN-US/owc10.exe"

Set objOWC = CreateObject("OWC10.Chartspace")



if(objOWC is nothing) then if msgbox ("O.W.C. v10 is a required
component.",3,"Critical component missing!") = 6 then

window.navigate(downloadPath)

end if

End Sub