Microsoft KB Archive/232829

= INFO: Visual Basic Uses Exception Code 0xC000008F as Internal Exception Code =

Article ID: 232829

Article Last Modified on 5/28/2003

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Windows DNA
 * Microsoft Visual Basic 5.0 Learning Edition
 * Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 Learning Edition
 * Microsoft Visual Basic 5.0 Professional Edition
 * Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 Professional Edition
 * Microsoft Visual Basic 5.0 Enterprise Edition
 * Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 Enterprise Edition

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This article was previously published under Q232829



SUMMARY
Visual Basic uses exception code 0xC000008F as its internal exception code. You can ignore the returned float value that the exception returns. Visual Basic is actually making a call to an object that returns a failure HRESULT. That failure is turned into an exception that gets thrown. There is no bug in Visual Basic. Instead, you need to examine the object being called, which causes the exception, and determine why it is failing.



MORE INFORMATION
This exception may appear in a debug dump generated by the Console Debugger (CDB) or in the WinDbg debugger when you use the Exception Monitor. Please review the CDB or WinDbg debugger sxe switch that allows you to control the action the debugger takes when an exception occurs. For example, you can use the sxe switch to dump the call stack associated with the exception.

