Microsoft KB Archive/202145

= PRB: Source Control Tool Shows Font Property Deleted on Check-in =

Article ID: 202145

Article Last Modified on 12/11/2003

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Visual Basic 5.0 Learning Edition
 * Microsoft Visual Basic 5.0 Professional Edition
 * Microsoft Visual Basic 5.0 Enterprise Edition
 * Microsoft Visual SourceSafe 4.0 Standard Edition
 * Microsoft Visual SourceSafe 4.0a
 * Microsoft Visual SourceSafe 5.0 Standard Edition
 * Microsoft Visual SourceSafe 6.0 Standard Edition

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This article was previously published under Q202145



SYMPTOMS
When you use a source code control tool such as Visual SourceSafe on a Visual Basic project, .frm files appear to lose font information for controls.



CAUSE
If a control's font matches the font of the parent form exactly, the font blocks are optimized out of the property definitions. When Visual Basic loads a control that does not contain a font block, the font property of the control is set to the font that is used by the control's parent form.



RESOLUTION
You can safely ignore a difference report that shows a missing font.

To avoid the problem, do one of the following:


 * Set the Font property of the Form to a font or font size that is not used by the controls on the form.
 * Set the Font property of each control at run time.



STATUS
This behavior is by design.



Steps to reproduce behavior

 * 1) In Visual Basic, create a new Standard EXE project. Form1 is created by default.
 * 2) Add a CommandButton to Form1.
 * 3) Change the font of the CommandButton in the Properties window.
 * 4) Save the project and add the project to Visual SourceSafe.
 * 5) Check out Form1.
 * 6) Change the Font property of CommandButton1 to be the same as Form1.
 * 7) Save Form1 and close Visual Basic.
 * 8) Start Visual Basic and reload your project.
 * 9) Add a line of code to the project and delete it. This causes Visual Basic to mark the form as "dirty," which prompts cleanup when it is saved.
 * 10) Save Form1.frm.
 * 11) From the Tools menu, point to SourceSafe and click Show Differences to open the Difference Options dialog box. Click OK to display the difference report.

RESULT: The difference report shows that the reference to the Font property of Command1 was deleted.

Keywords: kbprb kbideproject KB202145

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