BUG: VB 4.0 32-bit Quits When Deleting a Menu at Design Time

• Standard, Professional, and Enterprise Editions of Microsoft Visual Basic, 32-bit only, for Windows, version 4.0

SYMPTOMS

After a specific series of menu manipulations with the Menu Editor and the Properties window, deleting a menu and continuing with work causes VB32.EXE to crash.

RESOLUTION

This problem occurs only with a very specific sequence of actions, and you can easily work around it by avoiding the series of actions outlined in the "Steps to Reproduce Problem" section of this article.

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a bug in the Microsoft products listed at the beginning of this article. We are researching this problem and will post new information here in the Microsoft Knowledge Base as it becomes available.

MORE INFORMATION

Steps to Reproduce Problem

1. Start a new project in Visual Basic.

2. Click the Menu Editor icon in the toolbar to bring up the Menu Editor.

3. In the Menu Editor dialog box, enter 'a' in the Name text box and 'a' in the Caption text box to create a single menu with no subitems. Click OK.

4. In the Properties window, select the menu that was just created.

5. Click anywhere in the non-client area of the form - the menu bar, title bar, or borders.

6. Click the Menu Editor icon again, and when the Menu Editor dialog box appears, delete the menu 'a' and click OK. The properties for the menu will stay visible in the Properties window, and the Name, Caption, and Shortcut properties will become gibberish. If you now attempt to add a new control, Visual Basic will quit.