Microsoft KB Archive/171521

= FIX: Non-Creatable Class Causes Loss of Binary Compatibility =

Article ID: 171521

Article Last Modified on 12/10/2003

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Visual Basic 5.0 Control Creation Edition
 * Microsoft Visual Basic 5.0 Learning Edition
 * Microsoft Visual Basic 5.0 Professional Edition
 * Microsoft Visual Basic 5.0 Enterprise Edition

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This article was previously published under Q171521



SYMPTOMS
Binary incompatibility warnings may be generated even though none of the declarations cited in the warnings have changed. This may occur when a function in a class makes a reference to a non-creatable class. As a result, binary compatibility will be broken.



STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed this to be a bug in the Microsoft products listed at the beginning of this article. This bug has been fixed in Visual Studio 97 Service Pack 2.

For more information on the Visual Studio 97 Service Pack 2, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

170365 INFO: Visual Studio 97 Service Packs - What, Where, and Why

For a list of the Visual Basic 5.0 bugs that were fixed in the Visual Studio 97 Service Pack 2, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

171554 INFO: Visual Basic 5.0 Fixes in Visual Studio 97 Service Pack 2

Keywords: kbbug kbfix kbvbp500sp2fix kbvs97sp2fix KB171521

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