Q257692: FIX: Resource Leak If Control’s IMEMode > 0 (Int’l Versions)

Article: Q257692
Product(s): Microsoft Visual Basic for Windows
Version(s): 
Operating System(s): 
Keyword(s): kbFarEast kbIntl kbVBp kbVBp600bug kbGrpDSVB kbDSupport kbVS600sp4fix kbVS600sp5fix
Last Modified: 30-JUL-2001

SYMPTOMS
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You are experiencing a loss of Microsoft Windows resources in your Visual Basic
6.0 application. You have TextBox or ComboBox controls on a form, and the
IMEMode (the Input Method Editor Mode) property of those controls is set to a
value greater than zero (0).

The problem occurs only on Far Eastern versions of Windows.

STATUS
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Microsoft has confirmed that this is a bug in the Microsoft products that are
listed at the beginning of this article. This bug was corrected in the latest
service pack for Visual Studio 6.0.

For additional information about Visual Studio service packs, click the following
article numbers to view the articles in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

  Q194022 INFO: Visual Studio 6.0 Service Packs, What, Where, Why

  Q194295 HOWTO: Tell That a Visual Studio Service Pack Is Installed

To download the latest Visual Studio service pack, visit the following Microsoft
Web site:

  http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/downloads/updates.asp

Additional query words: sp4

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Keywords          : kbFarEast kbIntl kbVBp kbVBp600bug kbGrpDSVB kbDSupport kbVS600sp4fix kbVS600sp5fix 
Issue type        : kbbug
Solution Type     : kbfix

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