Article ID: 171507
Article Last Modified on 12/10/2003
APPLIES TO
- Microsoft Visual Basic 5.0 Control Creation Edition
- Microsoft Visual Basic 5.0 Learning Edition
- Microsoft Visual Basic 5.0 Professional Edition
- Microsoft Visual Basic 5.0 Enterprise Edition
This article was previously published under Q171507
SYMPTOMS
Visual Basic may cause a General Protection Fault (GPF) when you select multiple controls on a form and choose Align/Lefts from the Format menu.
CAUSE
One of the controls selected on the form handles a COM object incorrectly by implementing IPersistStreamInit::Save and returning E_FAIL. This has been reproduced with custom controls built with MFC, ATL, MarcWan Framework, and the JavaVM.
RESOLUTION
Install Visual Studio 97 Service Pack 2 (SP2).
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:
170365 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:
171554 INFO: Visual Basic 5.0 Fixes in Visual Studio 97 Service Pack 2
Keywords: kbbug kbfix kbvbp500sp2fix kbvs97sp2fix KB171507