Microsoft KB Archive/77243

= BUG: LinkTimeOut of -1 Waits Only 6553.5 Secs Before Time Out =

Article ID: 77243

Article Last Modified on 11/18/2003

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Visual Basic 2.0 Standard Edition
 * Microsoft Visual Basic 2.0 Professional Edition
 * Microsoft Visual Basic 1.0 Standard Edition

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This article was previously published under Q77243



SYMPTOMS
Contrary to the documentation and online Help for Microsoft Visual Basic, setting the LinkTimeOut property of a control to -1 will not cause the control to wait forever for a DDE operation to complete. Setting the LinkTimeOut property to -1 will cause the control to wait for 65535 intervals of 1/10 second, for a total of approximately 1 hour and 49 minutes.



WORKAROUND
To work around this problem, you can trap the DDE time-out error using the On Error statement in Visual Basic. If the error was &quot;Timeout while waiting for DDE response,&quot; you can retry the DDE operation until it succeeds. The following is a code example: Sub DDE_Retry_Forever (Source as Control, commandx$) On Local Error Goto Handler

Source.LinkExecute commandx$ Exit Sub

Handler: If Err = 286 Then Resume Else Error Err End If  End Sub



STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed this to be a bug in the Microsoft products listed at the beginning of this article. We are researching this problem and will post new information here in the Microsoft Knowledge Base as it becomes available.

Additional query words: buglist1.00 buglist2.00 2.00

Keywords: kbbug KB77243

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