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 Bob Bob Z has provided an interim fix for the DLL problem, which is caused by an incorrectly formatted Type32 node inside ClarionProperties.xml file.

This XML file is located in C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Roaming\SoftVelocity\Clarion\9.0 (where <username> is replaced with your own user name).

Here's how an incorrectly formatted file appears:

The Type32 node should not exist. Instead it should be replaced by the following Properties node:

 	<Properties name="Type32">
	    <signed value="long" />
	    <unsigned value="long" />
	    <handle value="long" />
	    <bool value="long" />
	</Properties>

This will be fixed for the next release, but meanwhile you can edit the file manually.

An extremely weird thing happened while I was editing my ClarionProperties.xml in Notepad++. I had copied the above text into the clipboard to paste into this document, and then to paste into the XML file. But I figured I should probably close Clarion first just in case it wrote to the file on exit. I closed Clarion. Notepad++ said the file had changed. Aha! I was right. I reloaded the file.

And to my great surprise it was now the correctly formatted file! How did that happen? Did what I had in the clipboard somehow make it into the file? That really doesn't make a lot of sense to me. Or did the IDE somehow wake up and realize it needed to rewrite the XML file?

Puzzling.