FIX: Access Violation with Public Enums in UserControl
Article ID: 177703
Article Last Modified on 11/5/2003
APPLIES TO
- Microsoft Visual Basic 5.0 Professional Edition
- Microsoft Visual Basic 5.0 Enterprise Edition
This article was previously published under Q177703
SYMPTOMS
When exiting a Visual Basic 5.0 ActiveX Control project in the design
environment, an Access Violation error occurs and Visual Basic is
terminated.
CAUSE
This problem can occur when declaring Public Enum in the UserControl module
when running Visual Studio 97 Service Pack 2 (SP2.)
RESOLUTION
Move the Public Enums to a standard (.bas) module instead of the
UserControl module.
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 Basic 6.0.
Additional query words: IPF GPF crash
Keywords: kbbug kbfix kbvbp600fix kbctrlcreate kbcontrol KB177703