Microsoft KB Archive/171515

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FIX: Crash on Customization of Design Environment Menus

Article ID: 171515

Article Last Modified on 12/10/2003

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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

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This article was previously published under Q171515

SYMPTOMS

Under the scenarios described in the MORE INFORMATION section below involving menu customization, Visual Basic 5.0 will crash with the message:

"VB5 caused an invalid page fault in module VB5.EXE at 0137:004dbff8"

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

Scenario 1

1. Start a Standard EXE project in Visual Basic 5.0.
2. Close the design window for Form1.
3. Select View...Toolbars...Customize from the Menubar.
4. Select "Shortcut Menus."
5. Select Forms...Forms...Update UserControls and drag it to any other menu on the main menu.
6. Click the Close button to close the Customize dialog box. The following error occurs:

   "VB5 caused an invalid page fault in module VB5.EXE at 0137:004dbff8"

   NOTE: If step 2 is omitted, exiting and re-launching Visual Basic 5.0 will result in the message:

   "VB5 caused an invalid page fault in module VB5.EXE at 0137:0048d2d4."

   This specific behavior can be corrected by running REGEDIT.EXE and deleting the HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Visual Basic\5.0\UI key and re-launching Visual Basic 5. Note that this will reset all menu customization to the Visual Basic defaults.

Scenario 2

1. Start a new Standard EXE project in Visual Basic 5.0.
2. Close the design window for Form1.
3. Add an add-in that would add a Menu item to the Form's right-click menu, and the following error will occur:

   "VB5 caused an invalid page fault in module VB5.EXE at 0137:004dbff8"

   NOTE: It is recommended that add-ins not add context menus items to the forms context menu.

Keywords: kbbug kbfix kbvbp500sp2fix kbvs97sp2fix KB171515

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