Frequently Asked Questions

Here are some frequently asked questions

Installation

During installation, "Fatal Error" dialog appears with the message "Disk1.cab has an invalid digital signature. This may indicate that the cabinet file is corrupt."

During installation, "Fatal Error" dialog appears with the message "Installation ended prematurely because of an error."

During installation, "The system cannot open the device or file specified" error message occurs.

 

Help System

Help system shows tree structure in the left pane, but content pages do not show in the right pane.

 

AB.LOGIX.NET Driver

Handling strings inside UDTs (User Defined Types) and PDTs (Predefined Types)

Receiving communications timeouts even though TimeoutTrans property is set sufficiently high and network is working properly.

Network is working properly but I am seeing delays in on-demand reads and writes.

Read or Write reports 'Device error (CIP extended) 0x03150101: Connection failure: Invalid segment type.'

 

GE.SRTP Driver

PACSystems RX3i requires CPU in slot 2,3

 

SI.S7.Net Driver

Receiving error reading or writing from/to a Siemens S7-1200 or S7-1500 with firmware revision 4.0 or higher.

Device error 0x00000005 is returned when reading or writing an S7 data block.

Handling strings inside UDTs (User Defined Types) and PDTs (Predefined Types)

 

Web Applications

Web application throws system exception when accessing system resources

 

Deployment / Runtime

Troubleshooting ASComm.NET Runtime Licensing Issues

Runtime License Instructions for ASComm.NET in Mixed-mode c++ Applications

 

Installation

During installation setup application hangs when using Zone Alarm virus protection products.

 

General

Receive license exception when attempting to run .NET application hosting Automated Solutions ActiveX Controls

Visual Studio reports missing license file after application setup package is run on development machine.

In Visual Basic, how do I pass an integer value greater than 32767 to the ActiveX control's .Data property?

How to dynamically add ActiveX controls that require run-time licenses in Visual Basic .NET

How to dynamically add ActiveX controls that require run-time licenses in Visual C# .NET

Attempting to run an application built under Windows Vista Business (or Ultimate) 64-bit results in runtime exception

How do I use a single control to read/write non-contiguous data areas in sequential transactions?

Where do I find the descriptions for the error codes returned by the control?

Using Automated Solutions ActiveX Controls in LabView

 

A-B Ethernet

When I try to use the A-B Ethernet ActiveX Control with a MicroLogix 1100, I get result code 10061.

When I try to use the A-B Ethernet ActiveX Control with a 1761-NET-ENI module, I get result code 10061.

Receiving communications timeouts even though TimeoutTrans property is set sufficiently high and network is working properly.

ControlLogix Unsolicited Message Generates error 16#0008 (Unsupported Service Requested).

Writing to a ControlLogix string variable.

 

A-B Serial

A-B Serial Control returns error code 0xf00b (Access denied, improper privilege) when attempting to write to a memory location.

 

GE SRTP

PACSystems RX3i requires CPU in slot 2,3