FIX: Crash Sometimes Occurs with Cursor over Toolbox

 Last reviewed: December 18, 1997
Article ID: Q171486
The information in this article applies to:
  • Microsoft Visual Basic Control Creation, Professional, and Enterprise Editions for Windows, version 5.0

SYMPTOMS

When moving the cursor over the Toolbox, an Access Violation may occur.

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: 

   ARTICLE-ID: Q170365
   TITLE     : 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: 

   ARTICLE-ID: Q171554
   TITLE     : INFO: Visual Basic 5.0 Fixes in Visual Studio 97
               Service Pack 2

MORE INFORMATION

Steps to Reproduce Behavior

  1. Start a new Standard EXE project.

  2. Under Project | Components, add all of the intrinsic controls and all other Microsoft controls to the project.

  3. Whether you add controls to the form by double-clicking them or by clicking them and drawing them on the form, the bug will occur because it depends upon clicking a control on the Toolbar.

  4. An Application Error or an Access Violation similar to the following is likely to occur within a few minutes of continually adding controls:

    "The instruction at <some address> referenced memory at <some address>. The memory could not be read." 

Keywords          : vb5all VS97FixlistSP3 VS97FixlistSP2 VB5FixlistSP2
Version           : 5.0
Platform          : WINDOWS
Issue type        : kbbug
Solution Type     : kbfix kbservicepack

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Last reviewed: December 18, 1997
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