Microsoft KB Archive/171817

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Article ID: 171817

Article Last Modified on 12/10/2003



APPLIES TO

  • Microsoft Visual Basic 5.0 Control Creation Edition
  • Microsoft Visual Basic 5.0 Professional Edition
  • Microsoft Visual Basic 5.0 Enterprise Edition
  • Microsoft Visual FoxPro 5.0 Standard Edition
  • Microsoft Visual FoxPro 5.0a



This article was previously published under Q171817

SYMPTOMS

When a Visual Basic UserControl tries to read ContainedControls in Visual FoxPro, the following runtime error occurs:

"32768, "Application-defined or Object-defined error""

RESOLUTION

This problem is corrected with Visual Studio 97 Service Pack 2. However, any Visual Basic 5.0 ActiveX Controls built before the installation of the Service Pack will need to be recompiled.

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

  1. Create a new ActiveX Control project.
  2. Name the UserControl "VBContainer" without the quotes.
  3. Name the Project "TestVBBuiltContainer" without the quotes.
  4. Set the ControlContainer property to True.
  5. Add the following code to VBContainer:

          Public Property Let Caption(ByVal s As String)
                   'See if ContainedControls works
                   On Error Resume Next
                   MsgBox "ContainedControls count =" _
                      & UserControl.ContainedControls.Count
                   If Err.Number <> 0 Then
                      MsgBox "ContainedControls failed." & vbCrLf & _
                         Err.Number & ": " & Err.Description
                   End If
                End Property
    
                Private Sub UserControl_DblClick()
                   Caption = "Hi"
                End Sub
                            
  6. From the File menu, select Make TestVBBuiltContainer.ocx.
  7. Start Visual FoxPro.
  8. In the Command Window, enter the following command:

    Create Form

  9. From the Form Controls Toolbar, select the OLE Container Control.
  10. Place the OLE Container Control on the Form.
  11. Select Insert Control from the Insert Object dialog.
  12. Select TestVBBuiltContainer from the Object Type list, and click OK.
  13. In the Properties Window, try to set the Caption for the control. You will receive the error described at the beginning of this article.
  14. Run the Form and double-click on the control. You will again receive the error described at the beginning of this article.



Additional query words: vfp

Keywords: kbbug kbfix kbvbp500sp2fix kbvs97sp2fix KB171817