FIX: Resource Leak if Control's IMEMode Is Greater Than 0 (International Versions) (257692)

SYMPTOMS

You are experiencing a loss of Microsoft Windows resources in your Visual Basic 6.0 application. You have TextBox or ComboBox controls on a form, and the IMEMode (the Input Method Editor Mode) property of those controls is set to a value greater than zero (0).

The problem occurs only on Far Eastern versions of Windows.

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 the latest service pack for Visual Studio 6.0.

For additional information about Visual Studio service packs, click the following article numbers to view the articles in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

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

194295 HOWTO: Tell That a Visual Studio Service Pack Is Installed

To download the latest Visual Studio service pack, visit the following Microsoft Web site:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/downloads/updates/