DOCUMENT:Q193010  23-SEP-1998  [vbwin]
TITLE   :BUG: Blinking Hourglass When Expanding Object in Watch Window
PRODUCT :Microsoft Visual Basic for Windows
PROD/VER:WINDOWS:6.0
OPER/SYS:WINDOWS
KEYWORDS:

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The information in this article applies to:

 - Microsoft Visual Basic Professional and Enterprise Editions for
   Windows, version 6.0
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SYMPTOMS
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While expanding an object in the Watch Window, the mouse pointer (cursor)
becomes a blinking hourglass, and Visual Basic appears to stop responding.

CAUSE
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The run object being expanded contains member objects (clientsessions) that
have run member objects that are the same instance as the parent run. (This
is a circular reference.)
          
NOTE: The problem appears to only occur with objects that access a
Microsoft Transaction Server (MTS) component.

RESOLUTION
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To stop the blinking hourglass, press the CTRL+BREAK key combination. If
the hourglass does not stop blinking, press the CTRL+ALT+DEL key
combination to get to the Close Programs dialog box in Windows 95 and
later, or the Task Manager in NT 4.0 and later. From there, select the
program, and click End Task.

To work around the problem, print the information to the Immediate window
instead of the Watch window using one of the following alternatives:

 - Use Debug.Print in the code.

   -or-

 - Use the Print method (or ?) directly in the Immediate window.

STATUS
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Microsoft has confirmed this to be a bug in the Microsoft products
listed at the beginning of this article.

REFERENCES
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MSDN Library Visual Studio 6.0: Visual Basic Documentation; Using Visual
Basic; Programmer's Guide (All Editions); Part 2: What Can You Do With
Visual Basic?; Debugging Your Code and Handling Errors; Using the Debugging
Windows

Additional query words: kbDSupport kbdss kbVBp kbVBp600bug kbDebug
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Version           : WINDOWS:6.0
Platform          : WINDOWS
Issue type        : kbbug

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