BUG: Control Properties Not Set Properly Using Form Manager

ID: Q192245

The information in this article applies to:

SYMPTOMS

Controls that are placed on an Active Server Page (ASP) following the Form Manager Design-Time Control (DTC) may not display their properties according to how they were set in the Form Manager DTCs default mode.


RESOLUTION

The Form Manager DTC should be placed at the end of all other controls on the ASP page.


STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a bug in the Microsoft products listed at the beginning of this article.


MORE INFORMATION

Steps to Reproduce Behavior

  1. Open a new Web project in Visual InterDev 6.0 and add a new ASP page.


  2. Add a Label DTC, a Form Manager DTC, and another Label DTC in this order to the ASP.


  3. Invoke the Form Manager properties and then add a new mode "a," which is automatically set to be the default mode.


  4. Select the mode "a" and add the following actions: 
    
      Object        Member           Value
      ------        ------           -----
      Label1        setCaption       ("Before")
      Label2        setCaption       ("After")


  5. Save the ASP and browse it.


Expected Behavior: The browser displays the label captions as "Before" and "After."

Observed Behavior: The browser displays the label captions as "Before" and "Label2."

Additional query words: 


Keywords          : kbCtrl kbVisID600bug kbGrpASP 
Version           : WINDOWS:6.0
Platform          : WINDOWS 
Issue type        : kbbug

Last Reviewed: May 26, 1999