Bug in VB.NET 2003.

[Rvo]

In VB.Net 2003 use the scale method of any gui-window in your application
with parameter (0) (that's a zero) and run the code.
When this line of code is executed your PC's OS (windows 2000 Professional
SP3 in my case) will lock up.
No tasks can be killed or anything, you'll need to reset the machine.

[Jeremy Cowles]

"Rvo" <romainvoes@{DoesNotLikeSpam}vlaamsparlement.be> wrote in message
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In VB.Net 2003 use the scale method of any gui-window in your application
with parameter (0) (that's a zero) and run the code.
When this line of code is executed your PC's OS (windows 2000 Professional
SP3 in my case) will lock up.

This actually makes sense, althought it should throw an excepiton, because
if you set the scale to 0 then the result would be undefined/infinity
depending on the scaling method.

Why would you want to scale to zero anyway? Would not that be the same as
setting the Visibility property = False?

~
Jeremy

[Armin Zingler]

"Rvo" <romainvoes@{DoesNotLikeSpam}vlaamsparlement.be> schrieb

In VB.Net 2003 use the scale method of any gui-window in your
application with parameter (0) (that's a zero) and run the code.
When this line of code is executed your PC's OS (windows 2000
Professional SP3 in my case) will lock up.
No tasks can be killed or anything, you'll need to reset the
machine.

Your *PC* must have a bug. ;-) Can't reproduce it (WinXP Prof./SP1). The
*only* thing that happens is that, as expected, the form gets as small as
possible, but *nothing* is locked at all.

Maybe your display driver ran out of stability?
--
Armin

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[Rvo]

I didn't want to scale to zero, I just made a "typo" and tried to run the
code :-/

"Jeremy Cowles" <jeremy.cowles[nosp@m]asifl.com> schreef in bericht
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"Rvo" <romainvoes@{DoesNotLikeSpam}vlaamsparlement.be> wrote in message
news:%2****************@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...

In VB.Net 2003 use the scale method of any gui-window in your application with parameter (0) (that's a zero) and run the code.
When this line of code is executed your PC's OS (windows 2000 Professional SP3 in my case) will lock up.

This actually makes sense, althought it should throw an excepiton, because
if you set the scale to 0 then the result would be undefined/infinity
depending on the scaling method.

Why would you want to scale to zero anyway? Would not that be the same as
setting the Visibility property = False?

~
Jeremy

[Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]]

* "Rvo" <romainvoes@{DoesNotLikeSpam}vlaamsparlement.be> scripsit:

In VB.Net 2003 use the scale method of any gui-window in your application
with parameter (0) (that's a zero) and run the code.
When this line of code is executed your PC's OS (windows 2000 Professional
SP3 in my case) will lock up.
No tasks can be killed or anything, you'll need to reset the machine.

Works without problems on my Windows XP Professional SP1 machine running
..NET 1.1.

--
Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]
<http://www.mvps.org/dotnet>