FIX: Error Calling FPOLE With Single Quote (') in Caption (221662)

The information in this article applies to:

Microsoft Visual FoxPro for Windows 6.0

This article was previously published under Q221662

SYMPTOMS

The FPOLE.DLL reports an error if the _Screen.Caption property contains a single quote or apostrophe (') character.

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed that this is a bug in the Microsoft products that are listed at the beginning of this article.

This bug was corrected in Visual Studio 6.0 Service Pack 3. For more information about Visual Studio service packs, please see the following articles in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

194022 INFO: Visual Studio 6.0 Service Packs, What, Where, Why

194295 HOWTO: Tell That Visual Studio 6.0 Service Packs Are Installed

MORE INFORMATION

Steps to Reproduce Behavior

Type or paste the following lines into the Command window:

CD Home(2)+"data"
_Screen.Caption = "Customer's test " + version()
DECLARE integer FoxDoCmd in "FPOLE.DLL" string,string
=FoxDoCmd("SELECT * FROM customer","at")

After you type the last line of code, the following error appears twice and then the Browse window appears:

Error: could not invoke method
_Screen.Caption = 'Customer's Test '

Modification Type:	Major	Last Reviewed:	10/15/2002
Keywords:	kbBug kbVS600sp3fix kbXBase KB221662