FIX: ActiveX Document Menu Changing Places

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

SYMPTOMS

Menus for ActiveX Documents (.vbd) change location in IE 3.0x. When you first view the .vbd document in IE 3.0x and the menu is in one location, then select a new address to view from IE 3.0x. Now return to the original .vbd document and the menu for the .vbd document is in a different location in IE 3.0x.

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

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

MORE INFORMATION

Steps to Reproduce Behavior

1. Open IE3.0x.



2. Open a local .vbd document that has a menu.



3. Menu appears as a sub-menu to IE Help Menu.



4. Go to another URL or .vbd and return. The menu appears on same level as the IE Help Menu. Note that the menu changes places after selecting a new address and returning to the original .vbd document.

Additional query words:

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