KB191875 - FIX: Multiple Open Class Browsers Cause Error Message

Article ID: 191875

Article Last Modified on 3/1/2005

Microsoft Visual FoxPro 6.0 Professional Edition

This article was previously published under Q191875

SYMPTOMS

Opening multiple instances of the Class Browser or Component Gallery simultaneously in Visual FoxPro 6.0 may cause the following error message to occur:

OLE error code 0x80040154 : Class not registered. OLE object is being ignored. Record number 5.

However, you might get the following error message instead:

There is not enough memory to complete this operation.

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 Visual Studio 6.0 Service Pack 3. For more information about Visual Studio service packs, please see the following articles in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

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

194295 HOWTO: Tell That Visual Studio 6.0 Service Packs Are Installed

MORE INFORMATION

The amount of memory installed helps determine the number of open instances of Class Browser or Component Gallery allowed. This number may range from three instances up to 20 instances of Class Browser or Component Gallery before the preceding errors appear.

Steps to Reproduce Behavior

From the Tools menu, choose Class Browser multiple times.

Eventually, one of the two errors occurs.

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