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BUG: Design Option in Pop-up Menu Data View Window Not Available

Jun.28, 2010 in Uncategorized Leave a Comment

Symptoms
If you use a Windows NT 4.0 computer and are not a member of the administrators group, you will not get the Design option in the pop-up menu for a table when you right-click on on the table in the Data View Window of Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0.
NOTE: This bug does not occur on Windows 2000 machines.
Resolution
The Visual Basic IDE is incorrectly determining that the Design option should not be shown unless you belong to the administrators group.

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BUG: GPF When RecordSource Property is Blank at Design-Time

Dec.21, 2009 in exception Leave a Comment

Symptoms
A data control causes an application error at runtime if the data controlcontains with a blank RecordSource property at design time and theUpdateControls method is executed. The application error ends Visual Basic.
Resolution
To work around this bug, at design time, set the data control’sDatabaseName property to a database and the RecordSource property to atable in the database. Other controls that are bound to the data control,such as a text box, should also have a value in the control’s DataSourceproperty

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