I thought I’d update you on my post from last week regarding how IE8 breaks some wizards in Visual Studio 2008.

On Microsoft Connect, they have confirmed that they can reproduce the issue.  Also, the Visual C++ team has confirmed that they found the issue in other wizards as well.  They don’t mention my issue directly, but I have confirmed that their fix does address my issue as well.

Be careful, some of the dialogs in Visual Studio 2008 break if you install Internet Explorer 8.  Here’s one example.

In an ATL project, in the Class View, right click on an interface and select “Add Property”.  The following error appears now.

Internet Explorer Script Error
Line: 731
Char: 5
Error: Object doesn't support this property or method
Code: 0
URL: file:///C:/Program%20Files/Microsoft%20Visual%20Studio%209.0/VC/VCWizards/CodeWiz/ATL/Property/HTML/1033/default.htm

The property creation dialog that follows does not work anymore.  Here’s what the dialog looks like now.  Notice the Internet Explorer information bar at the top.

I have submitted the issue to Microsoft.  The Connect bug report can be read here.