Microsoft KB Archive/223128

= FIX: Problems Saving Visual Basic Form to Visual SourceSafe =

Article ID: 223128

Article Last Modified on 10/15/2002

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Visual SourceSafe 5.0 Standard Edition
 * Microsoft Visual SourceSafe 6.0 Standard Edition
 * Microsoft Visual Basic 5.0 Professional Edition
 * Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 Professional Edition
 * Microsoft Visual Basic 5.0 Enterprise Edition
 * Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 Enterprise Edition

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This article was previously published under Q223128



SYMPTOMS
Saving a form that was previously saved that meets the following criteria:
 * The form contains an ActiveX control.The form was checked out from Visual SourceSafe.

causes a "Save as Dialog" to display and you are prompted to overwrite the existing file.



CAUSE
This problem occurs when you check out a form without checking out the .vbp file first.



RESOLUTION
To work around this, checkout the .vbp file first, then checkout the other files.



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 Visual Studio 6.0 Service Pack 3. For more information about Visual Studio service packs, please see the following articles in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

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

194295 HOWTO: Tell That Visual Studio 6.0 Service Packs Are Installed



Steps to Reproduce Behavior

 * 1) Open a new Standard EXE project. Form1 is created by default.
 * 2) Add an ActiveX control to Form1 (for example, a progress bar).
 * 3) Add the project and the form to Visual SourceSafe.
 * 4) Check in the .vbp file.
 * 5) Check out the form and make a change to it.
 * 6) Save the form.

Keywords: kbbug kbfix kbvs600sp3fix KB223128

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