Article ID: 171509
Article Last Modified on 11/18/2003
APPLIES TO
- Microsoft Visual Basic 5.0 Control Creation Edition
- Microsoft Visual Basic 5.0 Professional Edition
- Microsoft Visual Basic 5.0 Enterprise Edition
This article was previously published under Q171509
SYMPTOMS
When stopping a debugging session for an application within the Visual Basic 5.0 IDE, you may receive the following message:
This occurs if the application uses a UserControl that contains a TextBox control positioned within a container-like a Tab control.
RESOLUTION
An alternative to upgrading to Visual Basic 5.0 Service Pack 2 is to use the RichTextBox control to provide multi-line 'TextBox' functionality (as described in Section 2 of the README.TXT file included on the Visual Basic 5.0 CD-ROM).
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
MORE INFORMATION
Steps to Reproduce Behavior
- Create a new ActiveX Control project.
- Insert a Tab control on the UserControl.
- Insert a Textbox control into the Tab control.
- Set the Textbox control's Multi-line property to TRUE.
- Close the UserControl's designer.
- Click Add Project from the File menu. Select Standard EXE.
- Insert an instance of your UserControl into Form1.
- Run the Standard EXE application by pressing the F5 key.
- Stop execution of the Standard EXE by clicking End from the Run menu.
Result: An access violation occurs.
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