FIX: Import Wizard Fails With Excel 97 With Chinese Char

• Microsoft Visual FoxPro for Windows, version 6.0

SYMPTOMS

Certain Chinese characters saved in the Excel 97 worksheet may cause the following error when imported into a Visual FoxPro 6.0 table using either the Import Wizard or the Import command:

Fatal Error: Exception Code:C0000005

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a bug in the Microsoft products 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:

Q194022 INFO: Visual Studio 6.0 Service Packs, What, Where, Why

Q194295 HOWTO: Tell That Visual Studio 6.0 Service Packs Are Installed

MORE INFORMATION

Only certain Chinese characters saved in the Excel worksheet will cause this problem.

Steps to Reproduce Behavior

1. Create a Excel worksheet and randomly type in a large number of Chinese characters.



2. Launch Visual FoxPro 6.0, and type in the following command in Command window:




IMPORT FROM <worksheet name> TYPE XL8 

If the offensive characters are in the Excel worksheet, Visual FoxPro 6.0 will generate a C0000005 Fatal Error and terminate.

Additional query words:

Keywords : kbservicepack kbwizard kbVFp600 kbVFp600bug kbXBase kbVS600sp2 kbVS600SP1 kbVS600sp3fix kbGrpFox
Version : WINDOWS:6.0
Platform : WINDOWS
Issue type : kbbug