FIX: Error Occurs When You Issue the TEXT TO and SET TEXTMERGE Commands (318995)

SYMPTOMS

If you issue both the TEXT TO and the SET TEXTMERGE commands to assign data to a variable, you may eventually receive the following error message and Visual FoxPro may stop responding:

Fatal error: Exception code=C0000005

RESOLUTION

To resolve this problem, obtain the latest service pack for Visual FoxPro for Windows 7.0. For additional information, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

316964 How to Obtain the Latest Visual FoxPro for Windows 7.0 Service Pack

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in Microsoft Visual FoxPro for Windows 7.0.

This problem was first corrected in Visual FoxPro for Windows 7.0 Service Pack 1.

MORE INFORMATION

Steps to Reproduce Behavior

Paste the following code in a program (.prg) file, and then run the program from the Command window:

NOTE: You may need to run the following code several times before Visual FoxPro stops responding.

TEXT TO text_var
	This is the first line of text.
ENDTEXT 

SET TEXTMERGE ON TO MEMVAR text_var ADDITIVE
	\This is the second line of text.
SET TEXTMERGE TO 

TEXT TO text_var ADDITIVE
	This is the third line of text.
ENDTEXT 

SET TEXTMERGE ON TO MEMVAR text_var ADDITIVE
	\This is the fourth line of text.
SET TEXTMERGE TO