FIX: InfoViewer Cannot Download Samples If IE4.0 Is Installed

Last reviewed: December 19, 1997
Article ID: Q171844

The information in this article applies to:

Microsoft Visual Studio 97
The development environment included with: - Microsoft Visual Studio 97 - Microsoft Visual C++, 32-bit Editions, version 5.0 - Microsoft Visual InterDev, version 1.0 - Microsoft Visual J, version 1.1 - Microsoft Developer Network, versions April 97,
```
     July 97
```

SYMPTOMS

Downloading samples from InfoViewer or MSDN fails if Internet Explorer 4.0 is installed.

RESOLUTION

Install Visual Studio Service Pack 2 or later.

The version of IVAUTO.DLL containing the correction is 5.00.7198 and is 97200 bytes. This should be in the "...\DevStudio\SharedIDE\bin" directory. If you find any older versions of IVAUTO.DLL anywhere else on your system, delete them.

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:

   ARTICLE-ID: Q170365
   TITLE     : INFO: Visual Studio 97 Service Packs - What,
               Where, and Why

MORE INFORMATION

Steps to Reproduce Behavior

Install MSDN or an IDE product.
Install Internet Explorer 4.0.

Locate a sample topic. For example, try:

Developer Products

      Visual C/C++
         Visual C++ Samples
            POLYGON: The ATL Tutorial

Click on the link to download the sample on the page.
You should see a dialog listing the files in the sample and giving options. This dialog box fails to start. Instead, depending on the version of Internet Explorer being used, you may see no response or an error message box with:
```
      Title: "InfoViewer Automation Object"
      Text: "Error Accessing Sample Data"
```

Keywords          : VS97FixlistSP2 VS97FixlistSP3
Technology        : kbInetDev
Version           : WINDOWS NT:5.0,97
Platform          : NT WINDOWS
Issue type        : kbbug
Solution Type     : kbfix kbservicepack

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Last reviewed: December 19, 1997
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