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Article ID: 203573 - Last Review: June 29, 2004 - Revision: 4.1

PRB: ASP/ADO Coding Error Produces ASP 0115 Error

This article was previously published under Q203573

SYMPTOMS

When you view an Active Server Pages (ASP) page that uses ADO to access a database, you may find that nothing is written to the page or you may receive the following error message:
error 'ASP 0115'
Unexpected error
/webapp/pagename.asp
A trappable error occurred in an external object. The script cannot continue running.
-or-
Microsoft VBScript runtime (0x800A01C2)
Wrong number of arguments or invalid property assignment: 'fields'
/q203573.asp, line 14

CAUSE

When authoring Active Server Pages (ASP) pages, it is a common practice to substitute an equal sign for Response.Write. For example, instead of typing the following code
<% Response.Write RS.fields(1) %>
				
you can use the following abbreviation:
<% =RS.fields(1) %>
				
This is very similar to using a question mark instead of the word "Print" in Visual Basic. Leaving out the equal sign as in the following example will produce the above error message:
<% RS.fields(1) %>
				

RESOLUTION

To resolve this problem, insert the equal sign or use the full Response.Write syntax.

STATUS

This problem is fixed in Microsoft Windows 2000 (Internet Information Services 5.0).

APPLIES TO
  • Microsoft Visual InterDev 1.0 Standard Edition
  • Microsoft Visual InterDev 6.0 Standard Edition
  • Microsoft ActiveX Data Objects 2.0
  • Microsoft ActiveX Data Objects 2.1 Service Pack 2
  • Microsoft ActiveX Data Objects 2.5
  • Microsoft ActiveX Data Objects 2.6
  • Microsoft ActiveX Data Objects 2.7
  • Microsoft Active Server Pages 4.0
  • Microsoft Internet Information Server 4.0
  • Microsoft Internet Information Services 5.0
  • Microsoft Data Access Components 2.5
  • Microsoft Data Access Components 2.6
  • Microsoft Data Access Components 2.7
Keywords: 
kbdatabase kberrmsg kbprb KB203573
       

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