VB6 Run-time error 429

Question

I'm running an old VB6 report. When I run it I get Run-time error '429': ActiveX component can't create object.

After clicking ok, I get: Error 2108: An error occurred while executing control script.

I've narrowed it down to in the .rpt object I'm getting the date with =Now(), the page number with ="Page " & rpt.txtPageNumber.DataValue & " of" (so it says "Page 1 of...").

These are Field objects in the report object with the "DataField" property set to those two scripts respectively.

I have tried registering any and all .ocx and .dll files that I have found on while looking for an answer online, but I don't know what file controls these specifically.

The other confusing thing is that in the same VB project I am calling these scripts on many reports in the exact same way, but this is the only report that throws the error. If I remove these scripts on the report, it will run without issue. I would appreciate any direction that anyone can give me.

If you would find any other information helpful to the issue, let me know and I will provide it.

Answer 1

wiaaut.dll was missing out of the System32 folder. I used Process Monitor to get the GUID that my application was looking for and tracked it back to this assembly.

Copying this assembly into the system folder and registering it with regsvr32 solved my problem.