Article ID: 169309
Article Last Modified on 11/18/2003
APPLIES TO
- 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 Q169309
SYMPTOMS
Adding Active-X Designer | Microsoft UserConnection results in a shutdown of Repository and illegal operation, and then a shutdown of Visual Basic.
STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed this to be a bug in the Microsoft products listed at the beginning of this article. This has been fixed with Visual Studio 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
MORE INFORMATION
Steps to Reproduce Problem
- Create a new standard.exe project in Visual Basic.
- Save it locally and add it to Source control.
- Select the Tools Menu > SourceSafe > Options and set "Add files to source control when adding them to a VB project?" to "Ask".
- Choose Add | Active-X Designer | Microsoft UserConnection.
- Get UserConnection Properties dialog box. Click OK.
- Save the UserConnection object and answer "Yes" to "Would you like to save <object> to the current source code control project?"
Expected:
- UserConnection object is added to Visual Basic project, Visual SourceSafe project and Repos.
Results:
- Get repos message box:
Click OK and Visual Basic shuts down.
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