Visual Basic 6.0 - IDE Just Disappears Without Warning

[Ray]

Hi

Where I work we run a major application which is written in VB6 (being a
major international company upgrading takes time!! :-) ). To date this
hasn't been a problem.

However, we're currently incorporating a third party application into ours
(it's being developed alongside) and, since we installed this TPA, we've
experienced a very strange issue - the VB IDE will crash, as in disappear
completely, without any warning whatsoever! Presumably the VB6.exe process
is being killed somehow but, given that it can happen every 2 - 3 minutes
(or, sometimes, it might stay alive for 30 minutes) it's getting pretty
frustrating - especially if you've forgotten to save - or not had the chance
to save. It's very hard to point to any consistencies in the crashes,
although it can be reproduced on demand by, for example, opening the IDE,
running our application, then launch Windows Explorer or Control Panel.

I don't expect anyone here to be able to resolve this from this scant
information (unless you can, which will be great) but I'm hoping someone
might be able to explain why this might be happening and possible further
causes we could investigate.

Thanks

Ray

[Karl E. Peterson]

Post by Ray
Where I work we run a major application which is written in VB6 (being a
major international company upgrading takes time!! :-) ). To date this
hasn't been a problem.

I should think not, given there are no known upgrades available.

Post by Ray
I don't expect anyone here to be able to resolve this from this scant
information (unless you can, which will be great) but I'm hoping someone
might be able to explain why this might be happening and possible further
causes we could investigate.

But it works fine if you uninstall the TPA? Sounds like that thing's installing
some incompatible component. Maybe try reinstalling VB6 to overwrite whatever
garbage TPA is putting there?

[Ken Halter]

Post by Ray
Hi
Where I work we run a major application which is written in VB6 (being a
major international company upgrading takes time!! :-) ). To date this
hasn't been a problem.
However, we're currently incorporating a third party application into ours
(it's being developed alongside) and, since we installed this TPA, we've
experienced a very strange issue - the VB IDE will crash, as in disappear
completely, without any warning whatsoever! Presumably the VB6.exe process
is being killed somehow but, given that it can happen every 2 - 3 minutes
(or, sometimes, it might stay alive for 30 minutes) it's getting pretty
frustrating - especially if you've forgotten to save - or not had the
chance to save. It's very hard to point to any consistencies in the
crashes, although it can be reproduced on demand by, for example, opening
the IDE, running our application, then launch Windows Explorer or Control
Panel.
I don't expect anyone here to be able to resolve this from this scant
information (unless you can, which will be great) but I'm hoping someone
might be able to explain why this might be happening and possible further
causes we could investigate.
Thanks
Ray

Which OS?

One of these (free) utilities may help track down the problem
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/processesandthreadsutilities.mspx

"major international company upgrading takes time".... that's "migrate"...
not "upgrade" <g> If they were anything alike, it would probably be
considered an upgrade... since it's like apples and oranges, closer to C#
than it is VB6, it's a migration.