<p>Amusing tidbit from i-programmer:</p><p> </p><p>
</p><blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="52965" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>There's a problem for applications based on Visual Basic for all Windows machines that have installed the cumulative updates for August. The issue, raised by Microsoft, says that apps may stop responding if they use VB6, VBA, or VB Scripting Edition.<p> </p><p>
The information, which has been added to the Knowledge Base pages for the August Update for all the major versions of Windows from Windows 7 onwards, reads:</p><p> </p><p>
"After installing this update, applications that were made using Visual Basic 6 (VB6), macros using Visual Basic for Applications (VBA), and scripts or apps using Visual Basic Scripting Edition (VBScript) may stop responding and you may receive an "invalid procedure call error."</p><p> </p><p>
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Microsoft seems remarkably calm about having done this to every single installation of Windows and to billions of users.</p><p>
The Workaround section says:</p><p> </p><p>
"Microsoft is presently investigating this issue and will provide an update when available."</p><p> </p><p>
Well, that's all right, then.</p><p> </p><p>
The issue was also posted as the final item after things that were obviously more important such as a problem if you attempt to rename files on a cluster shared volume as a CSV owner node from a process that doesn’t have administrator privilege. Obviously, this is going to cause headaches for a lot more people than the tiny percentage of developers who've used such minority languages as Visual Basic or VBA.</p></div></blockquote><p> </p><p>
And then in March on mobilize.net</p><p> </p><p>
</p><blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="52965" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div><a href="https://www.mobilize.net/blog/windows-update-kills-vb6-apps1" rel="external nofollow">https://www.mobilize.net/blog/windows-update-kills-vb6-apps1</a></div></blockquote>