Microsoft KB Archive/167340

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Article ID: 167340

Article Last Modified on 11/18/2003



APPLIES TO

  • Microsoft ActiveX Template Library 2.0
  • Microsoft ActiveX Template Library 2.1
  • Microsoft Visual Basic 5.0 Professional Edition



This article was previously published under Q167340

SYMPTOMS

Insert an ActiveX control created with the Active Template Library(ATL) into Visual Basic 5.0. When you try to delete the control or run the Visual Basic program, the following error message appears:

Unhandled exception in Vb5.exe: 0xC0000005: Access Violation.

CAUSE

The error message is caused by a bug in Visual Basic 5.0. When an ATL control implements connection points and IQuickActivate, Visual Basic 5.0 causes an access violation if the control doesn't support IPropertyNotifySink.

RESOLUTION

To get around this problem, you can do one of the following:

  • Add the implementation of IPropertyNotifySink by deriving from IPropertyNotifySinkCP and adding it to the connection point map:

          // derive your control class from IPropertyNotifySinkCP
          class CPolyCtl : public IPropertyNotifySinkCP<CPolyCtl>
          {
          ...
          }
          // add IPropertyNotifySink to the connection point map
          BEGIN_CONNECTION_POINT_MAP(CPolyCtl)
               CONNECTION_POINT_ENTRY(IID_IPropertyNotifySink)
          END_CONNECTION_POINT_MAP()
                            

    -or-

  • Remove the implementation of IQuickActivate by removing it from the control class' derivation list and COM map:

          // delete these two lines
          public IQuickActivateImpl<CPolyCtl>
          COM_INTERFACE_ENTRY_IMPL(IQuickActivate)


STATUS

This problem has been corrected in Visual Studio 97 Service Pack 1.

For additional information about the Visual Studio 97 Service Pack 1, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

170365 INFO: Visual Studio 97 Service Packs - What, Where, and Why


REFERENCES

This issue is also documented in VCREAD.HTM, which comes with Visual C++ version 5.0.

Keywords: kbbug kbfix kbvs97sp1fix kbinterop kbvs97sp2fix kbcontainer kbctrlcreate KB167340