Setting Font Property

Hi,

After working with the AutomaticUpdater a while, my project became very unstable with Visual Studio (2008) crashing any time I opened the form with the AutomaticUpdater component on it. After a half-day of head scratching, I found that it was caused by explicitly setting the Font property of the AutomaticUpdater component.

I just wanted to confirm this issue.

-Brent

Let me investigate this. I'll get back to you soon.

I can't reproduce this. What exception is the AutomaticUpdater throwing?

Hi,

Well, I can't catch any exception. Here's what happens and the steps to reproduce:

1) Open Visual Studio 2009 Professional2) Create a new Windows Forms Application (in Visual Basic)3) Place an AutomaticUpdater component on the form that is created4) Set the Font property of the AutomaticUpdater component to Microsoft Sans Serif Regular 12 pt using the properties grid. (See note below.)5) Close the form. (Save it or not, it doesn't matter.)6) Open the form again.7) Visual Studio crashes with "Visual Studio has encountered a problem and needs to close".

Note: If I just change the font, it doesn't cause a problem. It seems to be just when I change the font size to something 10 pt or larger.

Funny, huh?

-Brent

Oops, I meant "Visual Studio 2008" (not 2009), of course. My brain is not calibrated to my keyboard.

-B

Ok, I'm seeing it now. This is a nasty bug. We'll have a fixed version out by Monday (at the very latest).

Thanks for spotting this.

wyBuild 2.5.16 is out. The crashing bug has been fixed.

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