FIX: Developer Studio Crashes Randomly When Navigating Workspace

 Last reviewed: December 1, 1997
Article ID: Q174809
The information in this article applies to:
  • The development environment in: 

        - Microsoft Visual C++, version 5.0
    - Microsoft Visual J++, version 1.1
    - Microsoft Visual Interdev, version 1.0
  • Microsoft Visual Studio 97

SYMPTOMS

Developer Studio crashes randomly while navigating in the Workspace's FileView or ClassView window and trying to activate different operations with right-mouse click, dragging objects, etc. The crash may also occur when using "Open Workspace" from the File menu to open a makefile. The crash is accompanied by an access violation dialog box. When debugged, the access violation usually points to the IsAlpha() function.

CAUSE

The cause of this access violation was due to uninitialized and invalid pointers.

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 3.

For more information, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base: 

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

Additional query words: Visual C++ visualc Visual J++ Visual Interdev
Keywords : VWBIss VS97FixlistSP3
Version : WINNT:97
Platform : winnt
Issue type : kbbug
Solution Type : kbfix kbservicepack

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Last reviewed: December 1, 1997
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