FIX: Crash on Customization of Design Environment Menus

 Last reviewed: December 18, 1997
Article ID: Q171515
The information in this article applies to:
  • Microsoft Visual Basic Control Creation, Learning, Professional, and Enterprise Editions for Windows, version 5.0

SYMPTOMS

Under the scenarios described in the MORE INFORMATION section below involving menu customization, Visual Basic 5.0 will crash with the message: 

   "VB5 caused an invalid page fault in module VB5.EXE at 0137:004dbff8"

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

Scenario 1

  1. Start a Standard EXE project in Visual Basic 5.0.

  2. Close the design window for Form1.

  3. Select View...Toolbars...Customize from the Menubar.

  4. Select "Shortcut Menus."

  5. Select Forms...Forms...Update UserControls and drag it to any other menu on the main menu.

  6. Click the Close button to close the Customize dialog box. The following error occurs:

    "VB5 caused an invalid page fault in module VB5.EXE at 0137:004dbff8"

    NOTE: If step 2 is omitted, exiting and re-launching Visual Basic 5.0 will result in the message:

    "VB5 caused an invalid page fault in module VB5.EXE at 0137:0048d2d4."

    This specific behavior can be corrected by running REGEDIT.EXE and deleting the HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Visual Basic\5.0\UI key and re-launching Visual Basic 5. Note that this will reset all menu customization to the Visual Basic defaults.

Scenario 2

  1. Start a new Standard EXE project in Visual Basic 5.0.

  2. Close the design window for Form1.

  3. Add an add-in that would add a Menu item to the Form's right-click menu, and the following error will occur:

    "VB5 caused an invalid page fault in module VB5.EXE at 0137:004dbff8"

    NOTE: It is recommended that add-ins not add context menus items to the forms context menu. 

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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