Description of the Project 2010 hotfix package (Project-x-none.msp): June 11, 2013

Issues that this hotfix package fixes

• Project 2010 may crash when you open a project that contains a macro.
  

• You run a macro that sets the duration of a custom duration field for a task in a project in Project 2010. When you save and then reopen the project, you receive the following error message:
  
  

  Invalid Duration

  This is not a valid duration, or is outside the range for this field.

  Type a duration in the correct format: for example, 4 hours (or 4h), 12 days (or 12d), or 2ed for elapsed days.

• When you use VBA Userforms and controls in Project 2010, you experience one of the following issues:

  • You receive the following error message:

    System error &H80070057 (-2147024809). The parameter is incorrect.

  • Project 2010 crashes.

• You copy a group of tasks that have predecessor and successor relationships. When you paste the groups of tasks into a different part of the project, the relationships to the tasks outside the copied relationships are not preserved. For example, consider the following scenario:

  • You have three tasks in which the second task is linked to the first task in a finish to start (FS) relationship.

  • The third task is linked to the second in a FS relationship.

  • You paste the second task and third task into a different part of the project.

  In this scenario, the relationship between the original first task and the new instance of the second task is lost. However, the relationship between the new instance of the second task and the third task is maintained.
  

• You create a drawing object in a Gantt chart view for a project in Project 2010. When you undo a formatting change, the created draw object is deleted and cannot be recovered.
  

• The CustomFieldValueListAdd method for Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) cannot write a value that is longer than 127 characters in Project 2010.
  

• When you export a project as an Excel workbook in Project 2010, dates that appear as NA in Project 2010 appear as 1/0/1900 or 12:00 AM in the workbook. Then, when you import the workbook into Project 2010, the task progress information is incorrect, and constraints are ignored.
  

Hotfix information

A supported hotfix is available from Microsoft. However, this hotfix is intended to correct only the problem that is described in this article. Apply this hotfix only to systems that are experiencing the problem described in this article. This hotfix might receive additional testing. Therefore, if you are not severely affected by this problem, we recommend that you wait for the next software update that contains this hotfix.

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