BUG: Visual InterDev 6.0 or Visual J++ 6.0 Crash When You Edit HTML with RDS Objects

CAUSE

The crash occurs if you use the <PARAM> tag to specify the RDS DataControl parameters (Server, Connect, SQL), as in the following example:

  <OBJECT classid="CLSID:BD96C556-65A3-11D0-983A-00C04FC29E33"
    ID=Authors height=0 width=0
    PARAM name=Server value="http://myserver"
    PARAM name=Connect value="dsn=pubs;uid=***;pwd=***;"
    PARAM name=SQL value="SELECT * FROM Authors">
  </OBJECT>
				

The development shell for Visual InterDev 6.0 and Visual J++ 6.0 attempts to access the RDS data at design time if the <PARAM> tags for the Server, Connect, and SQL properties are specified as a part of the <OBJECT> tag. This behavior exposes a bug in Microsoft Data Access Components version 2.0, which closes an asynchronous thread and then later tries to reference the closed thread, causing the crash.

  <OBJECT classid="CLSID:BD96C556-65A3-11D0-983A-00C04FC29E33"
    ID=Authors height=0 width=0>
 </OBJECT>
  <SCRIPT Language=VBScript>
    Authors.Server  = "http://myserver"
    Authors.Connect = "dsn=pubs;uid=***;pwd=***"
    Authors.SQL     = "SELECT * FROM Authors"
    Authors.Refresh
  </SCRIPT>