FIX: Developer Studio Crashes Randomly When Navigating Workspace

• The Development Environment, used with:
  • Microsoft Visual C++, 32-bit Editions, version 5.0
  • Microsoft Visual J++, version 1.1
  • Microsoft Visual InterDev, version 1.0
  • Microsoft Visual Studio 97

SYMPTOMS

Developer Studio crashes randomly while navigating in the Workspace's FileView or ClassView window and trying to activate different operations with right-mouse click, dragging objects, etc. The crash may also occur when using "Open Workspace" from the File menu to open a makefile. The crash is accompanied by an access violation dialog box. When debugged, the access violation usually points to the IsAlpha() function.

CAUSE

The cause of this access violation was due to uninitialized and invalid pointers.

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

Additional query words: Visual C++ visualc J++ Interdev

Keywords : kbVC500bug kbVisID100bug kbVisID600fix kbVJ110bug kbVS97bug kbVS600fix kbVS97sp3fix kbGrpDSTools
Version : winnt:5.0
Platform : winnt
Issue type : kbbug