Microsoft KB Archive/221674

= FIX: Import Wizard Fails With Excel 97 With Chinese Char =

Article ID: 221674

Article Last Modified on 10/15/2002

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Visual FoxPro 6.0 Professional Edition

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This article was previously published under Q221674



SYMPTOMS
Certain Chinese characters saved in the Excel 97 worksheet may cause the following error when imported into a Visual FoxPro 6.0 table using either the Import Wizard or the Import command:

Fatal Error: Exception Code:C0000005



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



MORE INFORMATION
Only certain Chinese characters saved in the Excel worksheet will cause this problem.

Steps to Reproduce Behavior
 Create a Excel worksheet and randomly type in a large number of Chinese characters.  Launch Visual FoxPro 6.0, and type in the following command in Command window: IMPORT FROM TYPE XL8 If the offensive characters are in the Excel worksheet, Visual FoxPro 6.0 will generate a C0000005 Fatal Error and terminate. 

Keywords: kbbug kbfix kbxbase kbwizard kbvs600sp3fix KB221674

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