FIX: DBCombo Click Event Fires During Form Load

ID: Q171798

The information in this article applies to:

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

SYMPTOMS

The DBCombo control's Click event fires during the Form's Load event.

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

This behavior is not consistent with the DBCombo control that shipped with Visual Basic 4.0. After installing Visual Studio 97 Service Pack, the DBCombo control's Click event will not fire during the Form's Load event.

Additional query words:

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