FIX: ReComputeRepository GPFs if Passed Non-existent DB Name

ID: Q169306

The information in this article applies to:

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

SYMPTOMS

ReComputeRepository GPF's if passed a non-existent DB Name.

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a bug in the Microsoft products listed at the beginning of this article. This has been fixed with Visual Studio Service Pack 1.

For additional information about the Visual Studio 97 Service Pack 1, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

Q170365 INFO: Visual Studio 97 Service Packs - What, Where, and Why

MORE INFORMATION

Steps to Reproduce

Pass the ReComputeRepository a database name that doesn't exist. For example:

lRtn = ReComputeRepository("c:\temp\invalid.mdb", "", "")

Expected:

No GPF.

Results:

First Dialog: "Failed to open database".
Second Dialog: "Failure:hr=0x80041013"
Third Dialog: "Error: The database "xxx.mdb" was not found."
Fourth Dialog: "The instruction at "0x019201a0" referenced memory at "0za0019201". The memory could not be "read".

Additional query words:

Keywords : kbVBp500 kbVS97sp1fix kbVS97sp2fix kbvbp500sp1fix kbvbp500sp2fix
Version : 5.0 97
Platform : NT WINDOWS
Issue type : kbbug