Article ID: 226498
Article Last Modified on 10/15/2002
APPLIES TO
- Microsoft Visual InterDev 6.0 Standard Edition
This article was previously published under Q226498
SYMPTOMS
When you open an Active Server Pages (ASP) page that contains an ActiveX Control in Visual InterDev 6.0, Visual InterDev crashes.
CAUSE
By default, the Visual InterDev 6.0 Source Editor attempts to display ActiveX controls graphically. If the source editor is set to display ActiveX controls graphically, and it encounters ASP script in an <OBJECT> or <PARAM> tag, the editor cannot display the control and will crash. Here's an example:
<object classid="clsid:BD96C556-65A3-11D0-983A-00C04FC29E33" height="1" id="rds" width="1">
<param NAME="SQL" VALUE="select * from authors">
<param NAME="Connect" VALUE="DSN=pubs;">
<param NAME="Server" VALUE="http://<% = Request.ServerVariables("SERVER_NAME") %>">
</object>
RESOLUTION
Install Visual Studio 6.0 Service Pack 3.
-or-
Open the ASP page in Notepad (or some other text editor) and insert the keyword VIEWASTEXT in the <OBJECT> tag of the ActiveX control. This will cause the control to always be displayed as text, but will allow you to view other ActiveX Controls graphically. For example, using the previous code, this would look similar to the following:
<object VIEWASTEXT classid="clsid:BD96C556-65A3-11D0-983A-00C04FC29E33" height="1" id="rds" width="1">
<param NAME="SQL" VALUE="select * from authors">
<param NAME="Connect" VALUE="DSN=pubs;">
<param NAME="Server" VALUE="http://<% = Request.ServerVariables("SERVER_NAME") %>">
</object>
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
First, ensure that Visual InterDev is configured to display controls graphically by default, then do the following:
- Create a new ASP page in Visual InterDev.
Paste the following code in the page:
<object classid="clsid:BD96C556-65A3-11D0-983A-00C04FC29E33" height="1" id="rds" width="1"> <param NAME="SQL" VALUE="select * from authors"> <param NAME="Connect" VALUE="DSN=pubs;"> <param NAME="Server" VALUE="http://<% = Request.ServerVariables("SERVER_NAME") %>">- Save the ASP page and re-open the page in Visual InterDev.
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