Wednesday, December 15, 2010

Toronto Subway 2.0.1

Version 2.0.1 of "Toronto Subway" is now available in the Palm App Catalog. In addition to providing a map of the metro system, 2.0.1 now uses your GPS to find and display information about the closest station. Please submit any feedback to b3itapps@gmail.com!

Friday, December 3, 2010

"The program can't start because BCSRuntime.dll is missing from your computer" when Office 2003 & Office 2010 Pro are installed.

We haven't migrated from Office 2003 yet, but a user of mine has a client that is using Microsoft Office 2007/2010's .docx format. They often share files, so they need to be 100% compatible. (And the Office 2003 Compatiblity Pack wasn't getting the job done) Because we are still standardized on Outlook 2003, I installed Office 2010 on their machines but did not install Outlook 2010. After install, the user kept getting an odd message when starting Outlook 2003:

"The program can't start because BCSRuntime.dll is missing from your computer. Try reinstalling the program to fix this problem."

Odd, since none of Office 2003's files were removed. After some digging, I found this post and it did the trick. Summary of the steps:

- Go to Control Panel, Programs and Features (Windows 7) or Add/Remove Programs (Windows XP)
- Select "Microsoft Office 2010" and select "Change"
- Select "Add or Remove Features", click "Continue"
- Under "Office Shared Features", there is an entry for "Business Connectivity Services".
- Click and select "Not Available"
- Click "Continue"