New Access / SourceSafe Bug Discovered

[uphid]

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

[Tom van Stiphout]

On 30 Aug 2005 13:15:28 -0700, up***@hotmail.com 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