FIX: Invoking the Visual Component Manager Asserts in Exutil

ID: Q171810

The information in this article applies to:

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

SYMPTOMS

Invoking the Visual Component Manager results in the error:

"asserts in Exutil Repository Items Method of ReposTypeLibs"

and returns Invalid Error Information.

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

Steps to Reproduce Behavior

Add "VisualCompmgr.connect=0" to vbaddin.ini.

Run Visual Basic.

From the Add-in's menu, add "Visual Component Manager."

RESULT: You should get assert exutil(329), followed by "resource with identifier '10215' not found." It should then quit.

Additional query words:

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