FIX: Engine: Collection Object Doesn't Access Correctly by Name

ID: Q171544

The information in this article applies to:

Microsoft Visual Basic Professional and Enterprise Editions for Windows, version 5.0
Microsoft Visual Studio 97

SYMPTOMS

If you create a Naming relationship on an object and you add an instance such as:


   x.add Obj,"12"

you cannot access this object by name, such as:


   set y = x("12")

CAUSE

If you use a string that can be evaluated as a number (such as "12") for the name of an object in a naming relationship, you cannot access that object by that name. The reason is that the repository evaluates any string that could be a number as an index rather than a name.

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 3.

For more information, 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 3, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

Q175450 INFO: Visual Basic 5.0 Fixes in Visual Studio 97 Service Pack 3

Additional query words:

Keywords : kbVS97sp2fix kbvbp500sp3fix
Version : WINDOWS:5.0; WINNT:97
Platform : WINDOWS winnt
Issue type : kbbug