FIX: ADO Reference Keeps Visual FoxPro in Memory after Quitting

• Microsoft Visual FoxPro for Windows, version 6.0

SYMPTOMS

After opening an ADO connection from within Visual FoxPro, Visual FoxPro may remain resident in memory after quitting the application.

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

Steps to Reproduce Behavior

1. Run following code:




Conn = CreateObject("ADODB.Connection")        
CLEAR ALL
QUIT 

2. Press theCTRL+ALT+DEL key combination to open Task Manager, and note that VFP6.EXE may still be listed as active.

Additional query words:

Keywords : kbADO kbDatabase kbVFp600 kbVFp600bug kbVS600sp3fix kbGrpFox kbDSupport
Version : WINDOWS:6.0
Platform : WINDOWS
Issue type : kbbug