Microsoft KB Archive/172255

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Article ID: 172255

Article Last Modified on 2/16/2005



APPLIES TO

  • Microsoft Visual Basic 5.0 Professional Edition
  • Microsoft Visual Basic 5.0 Enterprise Edition



This article was previously published under Q172255

SYMPTOMS

Using the Set keyword when setting the value of a ListItem's SubItem results in a General Protection Fault.

CAUSE

The SubItems collection of the ListItem is designed to handle strings, not objects.

RESOLUTION

Do not use the Set keyword. Instead of code similar to:

Set ListItem.SubItems(1) = Text1
                

use the following code:

ListItem.SubItems(1) = Text1
                

where Text1 is a textbox object.

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are 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:

170366 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


MORE INFORMATION

Although the code listed above that uses the Set keyword is incorrect, it should not result in a General Protection Fault. Once Visual Studio 97 Service Pack 2 is installed, the Visual Basic correctly raises the "Type Mismatch" error.

Keywords: kbbug kbfix kbvbp500sp2fix kbvs97sp2fix KB172255