FIX: GPF When Making .EXE File If Forms Saved as Binary

The information in this article applies to:

- The Standard Edition of Microsoft Visual Basic for Windows,

  version 2.0.

SYMPTOMS

In version 2.0, a general protection (GP) fault can occur when you replace text boxes originally created in version 1.0 with the new version 2.0 Masked Edit Text boxes, and then use the existing code. The GP fault occurs in version 2.0 when you try to turn the Visual Basic project into an executable (.EXE) program.

WORKAROUND

To work around the problem, save the project's forms and code in Text format rather than the default Binary format.

Use the following steps to save the code in Text format:

1. Select each form one by one from the Project window.

2. With each form, go to a code window of that form by double-clicking the form or by pressing the F7 key.

3. From the File menu, choose Save Text... to save each form's code as a .TXT file. Then from the File menu, choose Load Text... and highlight the .TXT file just created; then choose the Replace button.

4. After completing steps 1 through 3 for each form in the project, restart Visual Basic and load the project by choosing Open Project... from the File menu.

5. From the File menu, choose Make Exe...

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a bug in Microsoft Visual Basic version 2.0 for Windows. This problem was corrected in Microsoft Visual Basic version 3.0 for Windows.