Microsoft KB Archive/171800

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Last reviewed: December 18, 1997

Article ID: Q171800 The information in this article applies to:
 * Microsoft Visual Basic Learning, Professional, and Enterprise Editions for Windows, version 5.0
 * Microsoft Visual Studio 97 -

SYMPTOMS
Under certain conditions, Visual Basic 5.0 may unexpectedly quit when retrieving data from a database for use with bound controls.

CAUSE
This is due to a problem in the VB5DB.DLL component that originally shipped with Visual Basic 5.0. The version of the component that ships with Visual Studio 97 Service Pack 2 resolves the problem.

STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed this to be a bug in the Microsoft products listed at the beginning of this article. This bug has been fixed in Visual Studio 97 Service Pack 2.

For more information on the Visual Studio 97 Service Pack 2, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

ARTICLE-ID: Q170365 TITLE    : INFO: Visual Studio 97 Service Packs - What, Where, and Why For a list of the Visual Basic 5.0 bugs that were fixed in the Visual Studio 97 Service Pack 2, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base: ARTICLE-ID: Q171554 TITLE    : INFO: Visual Basic 5.0 Fixes in Visual Studio 97 Service Pack 2 Keywords         : vb5all VS97FixlistSP3 VS97FixlistSP2 VB5FixlistSP2 Version          : 5.0 Platform         : NT WINDOWS Issue type       : kbbug Solution Type    : kbfix kbservicepack
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