Re: New Access / SourceSafe Bug Discovered



On 30 Aug 2005 13:15:28 -0700, uphid@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

What version of SourceSafe? 6.0 d?
-Tom.


>So, we recently spent the last few hours chasing a rather obscure
>bug... We thought we would share with the group in the hopes that
>someone else finds this information useful.
>
>We use Access 2003 with SourceSafe for our current projects. We
>recently has a problem where Access would crash when we would "Get
>Latest Version" of a certain report.
>
>After an exhaustive search, we found the culprit. We had used high
>ASCII in one of the labels (specifically, it was a right arrow
>character).
>
>It appears that since SourceSafe imports and exports to text, that the
>SourceSafe parser was unable to deal with high ASCII characters in a
>label.
>
>To resolve the problem, just do not use high ASCII in your labels
>(likely other controls too), if you plan to use SourceSafe.
>
>Hope this helps.
>
>-Ben

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