To leave aside patents for a moment, if you’re having problems with large (>100K lines of code) projects in VB, this KB article might help. The problem is fixed in VB 2005, but if you’re using VB 2002/2003, there is a hotfix for it. Thanks to Eric Harrison for publicizing the problem!
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Thanks for pointing this out. We have been getting this problem for a while and this fix appears to have corrected it. I agree with Aaron’s comments though, it’s a shame that this fix could not have had a higher profile. We have also been having a lot of problems with the IDE crashing, since installing this today though it seems to be ok, so far!
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Dan, if you want to use the Contact link above, send me an email and we’ll see if we can figure out what’s going on…
SOFTWARE
Microsoft
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CurrentVersion
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USERPostMessageLimit Could you see if there is an existing value for this key
(USERPostMessageLimit) and what it’s set to? There used to be a limit of 10,000, but I believe that number can be set higher now. Create the key if you need to, and set it to some value greater than 10,000. Then see if the problem still occurs.
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