Microsoft KB Archive/178039

= BUG: InfoViewer Becomes Inoperable After Window.Close Is Called =

Article ID: 178039

Article Last Modified on 10/27/2006

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Visual InterDev 1.0 Standard Edition

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This article was previously published under Q178039



SYMPTOMS
InfoViewer ceases to function after browsing a page with client-side script that contains the Window.Close command. Trying to browse other pages with InfoViewer causes a blank error message to appear or causes the following application error:

The instruction at "0x00000000" referenced memory at "0x00000000". The memory could not be "read."



CAUSE
InfoViewer is not capable of closing itself from within the Visual Studio shell. The conditions that cause this behavior are:
 * Client Side Script using the "Window.Close" command. -and-


 * Browsing within the InfoViewer.



RESOLUTION
Use Internet Explorer to view the page that calls the "window.close" method.



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



Steps to Reproduce Behavior:
 Add a new .htm file to an existing Visual InterDev project. Name the file "test.htm."  Copy the following code and paste it into the file created in the previous step:   Save the file. Preview the file above in the InfoViewer. If you don't have "InfoViewer" set as your default browser within Visual InterDev, right-click the file in the "FileView" pane and then, from the context menu, select "Browse With" and then "InfoViewer."</ol>

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