Article ID: 223128
Article Last Modified on 10/15/2002
APPLIES TO
- Microsoft Visual SourceSafe 5.0 Standard Edition
- Microsoft Visual SourceSafe 6.0 Standard Edition
- Microsoft Visual Basic 5.0 Professional Edition
- Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 Professional Edition
- Microsoft Visual Basic 5.0 Enterprise Edition
- Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 Enterprise Edition
This article was previously published under Q223128
SYMPTOMS
Saving a form that was previously saved that meets the following criteria:
- The form contains an ActiveX control.The form was checked out from Visual SourceSafe.
causes a "Save as Dialog" to display and you are prompted to overwrite the existing file.
CAUSE
This problem occurs when you check out a form without checking out the .vbp file first.
RESOLUTION
To work around this, checkout the .vbp file first, then checkout the other files.
STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed that this is a bug in the Microsoft products that are listed at the beginning of this article. This bug was corrected in Visual Studio 6.0 Service Pack 3. For more information about Visual Studio service packs, please see the following articles in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
MORE INFORMATION
Steps to Reproduce Behavior
- Open a new Standard EXE project. Form1 is created by default.
- Add an ActiveX control to Form1 (for example, a progress bar).
- Add the project and the form to Visual SourceSafe.
- Check in the .vbp file.
- Check out the form and make a change to it.
- Save the form.
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