and sorry for not exactly a programming question, but if anyone can help i thought this is the place after googling around and finding nothing.
I have to cope with a crappy (presumably vb6) .net application for printing all sorts of reports. After installing it prints Ok, but if i print using another program, this one stops printing (halts on a modal blocks telling me it is 'forming a report').
From what i gathered with exploring the .exe and the hopeless support (apparently no-one else has this problem, they cannot understand what's wrong), it uses actrpt2.dll which seems to something called ActiveReports2. If i register this dll with regsvr32 the program WILL print, and after printing from any other program i need to register the dll again before printing works on this one.
So i made a quick .bat hack for it.. But the programmer in me cannot understand why this stuff with the dll keeps happening (well ok, it's windows...) - if anyone knows what is happening, and how could it be fixed, please tell me, i would appreciate it :)