Microsoft KB Archive/149406

BUG: Cannot Set Password Property to More Than 8 Characters

PSS ID Number: Q149406 Article last modified on 04-04-1996

4.00 | 4.00

WINDOWS | WINDOWS NT

= SYMPTOMS =

When you right-click the Remote Data Control (MSRDC), one of the right- click menu items is the properties. When selecting that menu item, a dialog box appears and one of the fields to enter is the password field. This field accepts only up to 8 alphanumeric characters. Anything entered beyond that is ignored.

= STATUS =

Microsoft has confirmed this to be an issue in Visual Basic version 4.0 for Windows. This issue will be fixed in the next major release of Visual Basic.

= WORKAROUND =

When MSRDC is selected, the normal Visual Basic properties window has the password property. You can type more than eight characters for the password in that field.

= MORE INFORMATION =

Steps to Reproduce

 * 1) Start a new Visual Basic 4.0 Enterprise Edition, 32-bit project. Form1 is created by default.
 * 2) Add the MSRDC control to form1.
 * 3) Right-click the MSRDC control and select the Properties menu item.
 * 4) Type 123456789 into the Password field, watching what is actually being accepted by the field. You will notice that you cannot type in more than 8 characters.

Additional reference words: 4.00 vb4win vb4all KBCategory: kbbuglist kbusage KBSubcategory: APrgData

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