Error from VB excel macro code - msxml3.dll -2146697211 The system cannot locate the resource specified

Question

I am using an MSXML.HTTPRequest object in a VB macro (excel) to communicate with an HTTP server. The problem is that it throws the following error intermittentl

Answer 1

Use MSXML v6.0, MSXML v3.0 is no longer distributed with Office or Windows. v6.0 is only distributed with Windows 7. But office 2010+ no longer comes with any version of MSXML any more. This explains the reasons for your issue.

It's also described in Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MSXML