PRJ98: Project Stops Responding When Resource Deleted (174358)

SYMPTOMS

In Microsoft Project 98, if you delete a resource in Resource Usage view, You may receive one of the following error messages.

Windows 95

This program has performed an illegal operation and will be shut down. If the Problem persists, contact the program vendor.

If you click Details, you receive an error message similar to this:

WINPROJ caused an invalid page fault in module WINPROJ.EXE at <address>.

Windows NT

An Application Error has occurred and an application error log is being generated.

Winproj.exe
Exception access Violation (oxc0000005), Address:<address>

CAUSE

These errors occur if you delete a resource in Resource Usage view when baseline work has been assigned to the resource and baseline cost has not been calculated for the resource.

For example, these errors occur in the following situations:

You delete a resource in Resource Usage view where the resource is manually assigned timephased baseline work but you do not assign timephased baseline cost.
You close and reopen a file in which a baseline has been saved, and then you delete the resource in Resource Usage view when Baseline Cost detail is not shown.

WORKAROUND

To work around this problem, do not delete a resource from the Resource Usage view if baseline work has been assigned to a resource. Instead, delete the resource from the Resource Sheet view.

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in the versions of Microsoft Project listed above.

This problem was corrected in Microsoft Project 98 for Windows, Service Release 1 (SR-1).

For additional information about obtaining and installing SR-1, click the article number below to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

185102 PRJ98: How to Obtain and Install MS Project 98 SR-1