COM object: open does not work (LN8), open fails or notes crashes

I use the COM object to access the contacts of Lotus Notes (to read and write them), programming lanugae is VB6.This has working since Notes 5.0.2 (on Win XP and Vista)

Now I installed Windows 7 64bit and Notes 8.0.2.

Problem:

When the Notes client is running I can no longer open the contact database:

either the method open (of the contacts data base) fails with error

-2147217461, “Database open failed (names.nsf)”

or notes crashes.

Here part of my code

Set myLNApp = GetObject(, “Lotus.NotesSession”)

If myLNApp Is Nothing Then Set myLNApp = CreateObject(“Lotus.NotesSession”)

Set AdrBook = myLNApp.AddressBooks(0)

AdrBook.open 'this returns error or crashes

Any idea how to solve this?

Is this problem of Notes 8.0.2 or windows 7 or 64 OS?

Does hotfix 1, 2 or 3 help here?

Thank you,

Chris

Subject: I have installed hotfix 1. Now it seems to work.

I have installed hotfix 1. Now it seems to work.

Subject: It’s back…

It seems that the bug is back in 8.5.1.

Installing 8.5.1 FP1 did not fix.

Subject: Help!

Someone managed to solve this bug?

Tks

Subject: Solution

IBM Lotus Notes Basic 8.5.1 Fix Pack 5 for Windows English

lotus_notes851FP5_basic_win.exe

https://www14.software.ibm.com/webapp/iwm/web/reg/download.do?source=ESD-DMNTSRVR&S_PKG=CRCZ5EN&lang=en_US&dlmethod=http

Subject: Solution

IBM Lotus Notes Basic 8.5.1 Fix Pack 5 for Windows English

lotus_notes851FP5_basic_win.exe

https://www14.software.ibm.com/webapp/iwm/web/reg/download.do?source=ESD-DMNTSRVR&S_PKG=CRCZ5EN&lang=en_US&dlmethod=http