FIX: ATL Control Causes Access Violation In Visual Basic 5.0 (167340)

SYMPTOMS

Insert an ActiveX control created with the Active Template Library(ATL) into Visual Basic 5.0. When you try to delete the control or run the Visual Basic program, the following error message appears:

Unhandled exception in Vb5.exe: 0xC0000005: Access Violation.

CAUSE

The error message is caused by a bug in Visual Basic 5.0. When an ATL control implements connection points and IQuickActivate, Visual Basic 5.0 causes an access violation if the control doesn't support IPropertyNotifySink.

RESOLUTION

To get around this problem, you can do one of the following:

Add the implementation of IPropertyNotifySink by deriving from IPropertyNotifySinkCP and adding it to the connection point map:

      // derive your control class from IPropertyNotifySinkCP
      class CPolyCtl : public IPropertyNotifySinkCP<CPolyCtl>
      {
      ...
      }
      // add IPropertyNotifySink to the connection point map
      BEGIN_CONNECTION_POINT_MAP(CPolyCtl)
           CONNECTION_POINT_ENTRY(IID_IPropertyNotifySink)
      END_CONNECTION_POINT_MAP()

-or-

Remove the implementation of IQuickActivate by removing it from the control class' derivation list and COM map:

      // delete these two lines
      public IQuickActivateImpl<CPolyCtl>
      COM_INTERFACE_ENTRY_IMPL(IQuickActivate)

STATUS

This problem has been corrected in Visual Studio 97 Service Pack 1.

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