Date and Time Picker - and general Service Packs updates

[SamDeMan]

Hi

I use the Date and Time Picker. i know that i can get many other calendars, however, my theory is that i would rather use something that is directly supported by microsoft. but as i found out now that may not be the case.

on of my users updated his Office 2003 after he was having problems using my database (created on 2002 sp3). i know that the same database works on 2003 sp1. however, now microsoft is serving 2003 sp2. so after the update he he can't use the database.

so my questions:

1. how do i generally prevent users from getting update errors. i would like to atleast alert them with a meaningful message that their version of Office needs to be updated.

2. is this true that the Date and Time Picker doesn't work anymore? and if so, why isn't backwards compatible? and how do i prevent this from happening with other controls or scripts?

thanks,

sam

 

[RuralGuy]

Here's a forum thread you might like to read.

 

[SamDeMan]

Thanks a lot.

I would like to add that i asked around on the web, and everybody agrees that ActiveX controls should be avoided whenever possible. they have a lot of versioning problems. note, that the Date and Time Picker doesn't work on 2003 sp2.

sam