FIX: _SCREEN.Forms[ ] Collection Not Available at Design-Time

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SYMPTOMS

In Visual FoxPro 6.0, the _SCREEN.Forms[ ] Collection is not available at design-time. Attempting to access methods of the collection results in error messages or incorrect results. In Visual FoxPro 5.0x, you could access elements of the collection at design-time.

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STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed that this is a bug in the Microsoft products that are listed at the beginning of this article.

This bug was corrected in Visual Studio 6.0 Service Pack 3. For more information about Visual Studio service packs, please see the following articles in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

194022 INFO: Visual Studio 6.0 Service Packs, What, Where, Why (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/194022/EN-US/ )

194295 HOWTO: Tell That Visual Studio 6.0 Service Packs Are Installed (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/194295/EN-US/ )

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MORE INFORMATION

Steps to Reproduce Behavior

Type the following in the Command window to create a form:
CREATE FORM Ztest
In Command window, type in the following commands:
? _SCREEN.FormCount ? _SCREEN.Forms[1].name
The first line of code produces 0. The second line of code produces the error message:
FORMS is not an object.

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APPLIES TO

Microsoft Visual FoxPro 6.0 Professional Edition

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kbbug kbcontainer kbctrl kbfix kbvs600sp3fix KB221645

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