Microsoft KB Archive/172862

= DOCFIX: Error in Sample Code for Async Downloading of Property =

Article ID: 172862

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 Q172862



SUMMARY
The Visual Basic 5.0 Books Online topic entitled "Adding internet features to controls" contains an error in the PictureFromURL Property Let procedure.



MORE INFORMATION
If you run the sample code, you may receive the compile error "Variable not defined" or run-time error 424 "Object Required".

The compile error results from the following line of code in the PictureFromURL Property Let procedure: If (AmbientProperties.UserMode = True) _ And (NewString <> "") Then This line of code should read as follows: If (UserControl.Ambient.UserMode = True) _ And (NewString <> "") Then The Ambient property of a UserControl returns an AmbientProperties object that holds the ambient properties of its container.



STATUS
This documentation error has been fixed in Visual Basic 6.0.

Additional query words: asynchronous kbVBp500 kbVBp600 kbVBp kbdsd kbDSupport kbdocerr kbdocfix

Keywords: KB172862

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