FIX: Problems Retrieving Visual Basic 5.0 Projects from Visual SourceSafe

ID: Q171803

The information in this article applies to:

SYMPTOMS

Retrieving a project from Visual SourceSafe into Visual Basic 5.0 may result in one of the following errors:

"Failed to reload project .... "
-or-
"Application error"
-or-
"The instruction at '0x0fa659de' referenced memory at '0x30303030'. The memory could not be read."


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:

Q170365 : INFO: Visual Studio 97 Service Packs - What, Where, and Why
For a list of the Visual Basic 5.0 bugs that were fixed in the Visual Studio 97 Service Pack 2, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
Q171554 : INFO: Visual Basic 5.0 Fixes in Visual Studio 97 Service Pack 2

Additional query words: kbDSupport 


Keywords          : kbVBp500 kbVS97sp2fix kbvbp500sp2fix 
Version           : WINDOWS:
Platform          : WINDOWS 
Issue type        : kbbug

Last Reviewed: June 3, 1999