FIX: Using VB with Modal Form Fails in Internet Explorer

When you shut down Internet Explorer, the following error message appears:

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:

This situation occurs when an ActiveX Document DLL project runs at the Visual Basic Integrated Development Environment (IDE) or an ActiveX Document EXE project runs either at design time or at runtime in Internet Explorer.

Steps to Reproduce Behavior

1. Create a new ActiveX Document EXE project with Visual Basic.
2. Create a Command Button on the User Document.
3. Write the following code to User Document:

   Private Sub Command1_Click()
         Dim frm1 As New Form1
         frm1.Show vbModal, Me
         Unload frm1
         Set frm1 = Nothing
   End Sub
   						

4. Add a new form called form1 in the project.
5. Create a Command Button on this form.
6. Put the following code to the form:

   Private Sub Command1_Click()
        Dim frm1 As New Form1
        frm1.Show vbModal, Me
        Unload frm1
        Set frm1 = Nothing
   End Sub
   						

7. Run the project.
8. Click the Command1 button. Form1 appears.
9. Click the button on Form1. Another instance of the Form appears.
10. Close all the forms.
11. Close the Internet Explorer window.

The following error message appears:

For additional information related to ActiveX Documents and Internet Explorer, click the article numbers below to view the articles in the Microsoft Knowledge Base: For more information about developing Web-based solutions for Microsoft Internet Explorer, visit the following Microsoft Web sites: