Microsoft KB Archive/171803

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FIX: Problems Retrieving Visual Basic 5.0 Projects from Visual SourceSafe

Article ID: 171803

Article Last Modified on 8/12/2005

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APPLIES TO

• Microsoft Visual Basic 4.0 Enterprise Edition

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This article was previously published under Q171803

SYMPTOMS

Retrieving a project from Visual SourceSafe into Visual Basic 5.0 may result in one of the following errors:

"Failed to reload project .... "

-or-

"Application error"

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"The instruction at '0x0fa659de' referenced memory at '0x30303030'. The memory could not be read."

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

Additional query words: kbDSupport

Keywords: kbbug kbfix kbvbp500sp2fix kbvs97sp2fix KB171803

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