INFO: Visual Studio 6.0 SP3 Readme: Part 3 - Visual Basic
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Microsoft Visual Studio 6.0 SP3
SUMMARY
This Readme file contains updated information for the entire Microsoft Visual Studio suite of developer tools. If you downloaded a Core service pack from the Internet, not all sections of this file apply to the updates you received. The fixed issues appropriate for the Core downloads are those listed in the Visual Studio section plus the sections for the products updated by your Core download.
The Microsoft Visual Studio 6.0 Service Pack 3 Readme contains the following sections:
PART 1: Overview and Installation
PART 2: Visual Studio
PART 3: Visual Basic
PART 4: Visual C++
PART 5: Visual FoxPro
PART 6: Visual InterDev
PART 7: Visual J++
PART 8: Visual SourceSafe
PART 9: File Versions
For the latest product information, see the Visual Studio Web site at:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio
For the latest product updates, see the Visual Studio Support Highlights site at:
http://support.microsoft.com/support/vstudio
For the latest year 2000 information regarding Microsoft products, see the Microsoft Year 2000 Readiness Disclosure and Resource Center Web Site located at:
http://microsoft.com/year2000
You can also call 1-888-MSFT-Y2K within the United States, toll-free, or contact your local Microsoft subsidiary.
Please see the REFERENCES section below for more information about the other parts of this readme.
MORE INFORMATIONMicrosoft Visual Basic
Microsoft Agent 2.0
Microsoft Agent, which shipped with Visual Studio 6.0 and Visual Basic 6.0, has a
new release on the Internet. You can download Agent 2.0 royalty-free from the
Microsoft Agent Web site where you will also find the updated Agent SDK,
including documentation, HTML and code samples, and licensing information.
Installation Information
Setup updates files that are not versioned, such as text files and nonbinary files, based on the date of the file. If you have previously modified one of these files and the date/time stamp is more recent than the date/time stamp on the file included with Service Pack 3, Setup will not update the file. One likely file in this category is vb6dep.ini. For additional information, see Determining the update history of products based on file versions.
Controls Issues
The following Controls issues have been fixed:
International Product Issues
The following international product issues have been fixed:
- Q216379 Boolean values for non-English versions of Visual Basic were converted to their localized form. For example, setting b = True could result in a value of "Sant" for b if the Regional settings for Windows were set to Swedish.
- Q223132 An error occurred in French, Italian, and Spanish versions of Visual Basic after adding the Repository Add-In and then adding control details to the repository.
- Q223103 A memory leak occurred when using a CommandButton control with Visual Basic 6.0 and Japanese Windows version OSR2.5.
- A General Protection Fault would occur in Japanese Visual Basic running in Windows 98 when you attempted to unload an MDI child form.
- A Reserved Error occurred in the German version of Visual Basic when creating a Web Project after making changes to the HTML file and then choosing Close All.
- An error occurred in the Korean Visual Basic Data Environment when using a default grouping command name.
- Creating a Japanese procedure name in Japanese Visual Basic, using the IME, then running the procedure caused the name to change.
- In Korean Windows, the IME Interim window would erroneously appear when an intrinsic control set focus with the KeyDown or KeyUp event of a Custom control.
- In the French version of Visual Basic, some style attributes in the DHTML Page Designer and the HTML Select and List controls, such as Width, Height, Left, and Top, were erroneously translated to French instead of remaining in English.
- The StrConv function did not support Japanese character sets on non-Japanese systems.
- Using the RDO GetChunk method with DBCS characters resulted in a bad string.
- When entering DBCS characters in Visual Basic running in Korean Windows, an IME Level 2 interim window would appear rather than the expected IME Level 3.
Microsoft ActiveX Data Objects (ADO) Documentation
Updated Microsoft ActiveX Data Objects (ADO) documentation is installed with Visual Studio 6 Service Pack 3. All users can gain access to the updated ADO 2.1 documentation (ado210.chm) from the Help folder in their Windows directory. Visual Basic users will be able to gain access to this documentation through context-sensitive (F1) Help if they have installed Microsoft Data Access Components 2.1 and created a reference to the Microsoft ActiveX Data Objects 2.1 library.
To create a reference to the ADO 2.1 library:
- From the Project menu, select References.
- Ensure "Microsoft ActiveX Data Objects 2.1 Library" is selected.
- Click OK.
Context-sensitive Help is available for all ADO 2.1 objects, collections, methods, and properties. Pressing the F1 key calls the standalone ADO 2.1 help, not the MSDN library.
For important information about a known issue with ADO, see Access ODBC
Keyset Cursor Becomes Corrupt After a Delete at:
http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q230/1/31.aspPackage and Deployment Wizard Issues
The following Package and Deployment Wizard issues have been fixed:
Run-Eime Error with COM DLLs
The following Microsoft Visual Basic issue has been fixed with Service Pack 1 and is included with Service Pack 3:
- Q192653 A run-time error can occur in compiled Visual Basic code when the application uses more than eight in-process COM DLLs.
If your applications download run-time components from the Web on setup, note that the following files have changed with this Service Pack:
msvbvm60.cab
vbrun60.cab
oleaut.cab
Miscellaneous Issues
Microsoft Knowledge Base Articles for Fixed Bugs
Some Microsoft Knowledge Base articles refer to and describe workarounds for bugs that were fixed in Visual Basic Service Pack 3. For a complete list of these articles, see:
http://support.microsoft.com/support/vbasic
REFERENCES
For more information about the Visual Studio 6.0 SP3 readme, please see the following articles in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
Q230722 Visual Studio 6.0 SP3 Readme Part 1 - Overview and Installation
Q230724 Visual Studio 6.0 SP3 Readme Part 2 - Visual Studio
Q230727 Visual Studio 6.0 SP3 Readme Part 4 - Visual C++
Q230729 Visual Studio 6.0 SP3 Readme Part 5 - Visual FoxPro
Q230730 Visual Studio 6.0 SP3 Readme Part 6 - Visual InterDev
Q230731 Visual Studio 6.0 SP3 Readme Part 7 - Visual J++
Q230732 Visual Studio 6.0 SP3 Readme Part 8 - Visual SourceSafe
Q230733 Visual Studio 6.0 SP3 Readme Part 9 - File Versions
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