Microsoft KB Archive/257660

= FIX: Setting Printer Object Reference to Nothing Causes IPF =

Article ID: 257660

Article Last Modified on 8/7/2007

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 Professional Edition
 * Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 Enterprise Edition

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This article was previously published under Q257660



SYMPTOMS
If you have an array of objects that are of type Printer and you set them to the objects of the Printers collection, an Invalid Page Fault occurs when you set them to nothing.



RESOLUTION
To resolve this problem, install the latest service pack for Visual Studio 6.0.



STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed that this is a bug in the Microsoft products that are listed at the beginning of this article. This bug was corrected in the latest service pack for Visual Studio 6.0.

For additional information about Visual Studio service packs, click the following article numbers to view the articles in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

194022 INFO: Visual Studio 6.0 Service Packs, What, Where, Why

194295 HOWTO: Tell That a Visual Studio Service Pack Is Installed

To download the latest Visual Studio service pack, visit the following Microsoft Web site:

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/Aa718353.aspx



Steps to Reproduce Behavior
 On Microsoft Windows 95 or Microsoft Windows 98, create a new Standard EXE project in Visual Basic. Form1 is created by default. Place a CommandButton on Form1.  Paste the following code into the code window of Form1: Private Sub command1_Click Dim i As Long Dim objPrinter(200) As Printer For i = 0 To 200 Set objPrinter(i) = Printers(0) Next For i = 0 To 200 Set objPrinter(i) = Nothing Debug.Print i Next End Sub  Press the F5 key to run the program. Click on Command1 and note that an Invalid Page Fault occurs.</ol>

Additional query words: sp4

Keywords: kbbug kbfix kbprint kbvs600sp4fix kbvs600sp5fix KB257660

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