KB171830 - FIX: ActiveX Document Menu Changing Places

Article ID: 171830

Article Last Modified on 11/5/2003

Microsoft Visual Basic 5.0 Professional Edition
Microsoft Visual Basic 5.0 Enterprise Edition

This article was previously published under Q171830

SYMPTOMS

Menus for ActiveX Documents (.vbd) change location in IE 3.0x. When you first view the .vbd document in IE 3.0x and the menu is in one location, then select a new address to view from IE 3.0x. Now return to the original .vbd document and the menu for the .vbd document is in a different location in IE 3.0x.

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

MORE INFORMATION

Steps to Reproduce Behavior

Open IE3.0x.
Open a local .vbd document that has a menu.
Menu appears as a sub-menu to IE Help Menu.
Go to another URL or .vbd and return. The menu appears on same level as the IE Help Menu. Note that the menu changes places after selecting a new address and returning to the original .vbd document.

Keywords: kbbug kbfix kbvbp500sp2fix kbvs97sp2fix KB171830