Microsoft KB Archive/315421

= BUG: &quot;Method '~' of Object '~' Failed. (ErrorCode=8000ffff)&quot; Error Message When You Create a Web Project =

Article ID: 315421

Article Last Modified on 10/11/2002

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Windows 2000 Server
 * Microsoft Visual InterDev 6.0 Standard Edition
 * Microsoft Windows XP Professional

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This article was previously published under Q315421



SYMPTOMS
When you use the Web Project Wizard to create a new Web project in Visual InterDev 6.0 Service Pack 5 with a user account that contains Chinese, Japanese, and Korean (CJK) characters, you may receive the following error message:

Method '~' of object '~' failed. (ErrorCode=8000ffff)



STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in Visual InterDev 6.0



MORE INFORMATION
Use the following steps to work around this problem:
 * 1) Log on to the system by using an account that does not contain any CJK characters.
 * 2) Create the Web project in Visual InterDev 6.0.
 * 3) Log off.
 * 4) Log on to the system by using an account that does contain CJK characters.
 * 5) Open the new project in Visual InterDev 6.0.

Steps to Reproduce the Problem

 * 1) Log on to the system by using an account that contains CJK characters.
 * 2) Create a Web project in Visual InterDev 6.0 Service Pack 5.
 * 3) In step 1 of the Web Project Wizard, specify the server that you want to use, and then click Next. You should receive the error message that is mentioned in the &quot;Symptoms&quot; section of this article.

This problem has been reproduced on the Chinese-language, Korean-language, and English-language versions of both Microsoft Windows 2000 and Microsoft XP.

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