Article ID: 171474
Article Last Modified on 11/18/2003
APPLIES TO
- Microsoft Visual Basic 5.0 Learning Edition
- Microsoft Visual Basic 5.0 Professional Edition
- Microsoft Visual Basic 5.0 Enterprise Edition
This article was previously published under Q171474
SYMPTOMS
Saving a project to one network share and creating the exe on a different
network share causes Visual Basic to generate an invalid path to the EXE
file.
CAUSE
This problem is caused when Visual Basic attempts to store the path to the
EXE relative to the Project files.
RESOLUTION
Keep EXE and Project on same share or upgrade to Visual Studio 97 Service
Pack 2.
STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed this to be a bug in the Microsoft products listed
at the beginning of this article. This bug has been fixed in Visual Studio
97 Service Pack 2.
For more information on the Visual Studio 97 Service Pack 2, please see the
following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
170365 INFO: Visual Studio 97 Service Packs - What, Where, and Why
For a list of the Visual Basic 5.0 bugs that were fixed in the Visual
Studio 97 Service Pack 2, please see the following article in the Microsoft
Knowledge Base:
171554 INFO: Visual Basic 5.0 Fixes in Visual Studio 97 Service Pack 2
Keywords: kbbug kbfix kbvbp500sp2fix kbvs97sp2fix KB171474