Microsoft KB Archive/221707

= FIX: Trace Breaks Too Often With Breakpoint on SET("NULL") =

Article ID: 221707

Article Last Modified on 10/15/2002

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Visual FoxPro 5.0a
 * Microsoft Visual FoxPro 6.0 Professional Edition

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This article was previously published under Q221707



SYMPTOMS
If a breakpoint is set in the Watch Window of the debugger with a value of a SET setting, an executing program might break even though the value does not change. For example, a breakpoint is set on SET("NULL").



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



Steps to Reproduce Behavior
 Set a breakpoint in the watch window on SET("NULL").  Create a program called MyProc.prg with the following code: Procedure MyProcedure For i = 1 To 100 Wait Window Str(i) Nowait Endfor EndProc  In the Command window, type Set Procedure To MyProc.   Create a form with one CommandButton. In the CommandButton's Click event, enter the following code: Do MyProcedure  Run the form. Note that the debugger causes the program to break execution.

Keywords: kbbug kbfix kbmisctools kbvs600sp3fix KB221707

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