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Q171544: FIX: Engine: Collection Object Doesn’t Access Correctly by Name

Article: Q171544
Product(s): Microsoft Visual Basic for Windows
Version(s): WINDOWS:5.0; WINNT:97
Operating System(s): 
Keyword(s): kbVS97sp2fix kbvbp500sp3fix
Last Modified: 18-JUN-2001

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The information in this article applies to:

- Microsoft Visual Basic Professional Edition for Windows, version 5.0 
- Microsoft Visual Basic Enterprise Edition for Windows, version 5.0 
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SYMPTOMS
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If you create a Naming relationship on an object and you add an instance such
as:

     x.add Obj,"12"

you cannot access this object by name, such as:

     set y = x("12")

CAUSE
=====

If you use a string that can be evaluated as a number (such as "12") for the
name of an object in a naming relationship, you cannot access that object by
that name. The reason is that the repository evaluates any string that could be
a number as an index rather than a name.

STATUS
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Microsoft has confirmed this to be a bug in the Microsoft products listed at the
beginning of this article. This bug has been fixed in Visual Studio 97 Service
Pack 3.

For more information, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge
Base:

  Q170365 INFO: Visual Studio 97 Service Packs - What, Where, and Why

For a list of the Visual Basic 5.0 bugs that were fixed in the Visual Studio 97
Service Pack 3, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge
Base:

  Q175450 INFO: Visual Basic 5.0 Fixes in Visual Studio 97 Service Pack 3

Additional query words:

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Keywords          : kbVS97sp2fix kbvbp500sp3fix 
Technology        : kbVBSearch kbAudDeveloper kbZNotKeyword6 kbZNotKeyword2 kbVB500Search kbVB500
Version           : WINDOWS:5.0; WINNT:97
Issue type        : kbbug
Solution Type     : kbfix

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