FIX: Visual Basic IDE Crashes Changing Control's Name in Properties Window (257782)


The information in this article applies to:

  • Microsoft Visual Basic Professional Edition for Windows 6.0
  • Microsoft Visual Basic Enterprise Edition for Windows 6.0
This article was previously published under Q257782

SYMPTOMS

If you have many controls on a form, changing the name of controls in the Properties window sometimes causes the Visual Basic integrated development environment (IDE) to crash with an Access Violation.

This crash occurs very rarely.

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/

Modification Type:MinorLast Reviewed:12/12/2005
Keywords:kbBug kbfix kbide kbIDEProject kbVS600sp4fix kbVS600sp5fix KB257782
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