PRB: Charset Property of ADO Stream Object May Require Microsoft Internet Explorer Upgrade

The Charset property of the ADO Stream object, which specifies the character set that the Stream object will use to store its data, depends on a section of the registry that may not be present on servers and workstations that are running earlier versions of Internet Explorer, such as Internet Explorer 2.0.

If you try to set the Charset property under these circumstances, you may receive the following error message:

This behavior occurs because the Charset property of the Stream object depends on the list of available character sets that are under the following key in the registry:

To resolve this behavior, if the Charset list is missing from the registry, you need to install it by installing a recent version of Internet Explorer, such as Internet Explorer 5.0 or later.

This behavior is by design.

For additional information about the Charset property of the ADO Stream object, please refer to the following Microsoft Web site for the MDAC online documentation: For additional references, refer to Programming ADO, p. 150, by David Sceppa, Microsoft Press 2000.