FIX: Get Statement Not Working Correctly with Large UDT

ID: Q171495

The information in this article applies to:

Microsoft Visual Basic Control Creation, Learning, Professional, and Enterprise Editions for Windows, version 5.0

SYMPTOMS

Reading string data using the Get statement into extremely large User Defined Types (UDTs) may cause a data mismatch.

CAUSE

There is an error in the Ansi/Unicode translation of string data in the UDT.

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:

Q170365 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:

Q171554 INFO: Visual Basic 5.0 Fixes in Visual Studio 97 Service Pack 2

MORE INFORMATION

If you have an extremely large UDT, reading valid data into it using the Get statement may be compromised due to an Ansi/Unicode translation error.

This error occurs when reading in the UDT and translating it from Ansi to Unicode.

In order for this bug to occur, the UDT is usually very large, most likely containing many nested levels and arrays.

Additional query words:

Keywords : kbVBp500 kbVS97sp2fix kbGrpVB kbvbp500sp2fix
Version : 5.0
Platform : WINDOWS
Issue type : kbbug