Memory leak in Spreadsheet component

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Thomas Isaksson

I have been working with the spreadsheet component for a while now and
discovered what seems to be a memory leak in the component. I am using the
OWC10 version (SP1) and I have tested using C++ and VBA both have the same
leak and it seems to be a bug in the component.

The memory leak occurs when retrieving XMLData. Normally it is only a very
small amount between 20 and 200 Kb on 1000 updates. However in certain cases
we need to use ' in front of string to avoid the spreadshhet autoformat, for
example '12-12 instead of 12-12 (evaluates to Dec 12). We tried to make it
easy for us by simply inserting a ' in front of all strings to avoid this
problem. Now however the component leaks about 5MB on 1000 updates but only
when retrieving XMLData.

This is totally unacceptable since we are developing a serverbased
application. I have no idea if it is possible to submit a bug to the
OWC-team. I am hoping someone from Microsoft reads this newsgroup and it
might be fixed in a future version of the Web Components.

Thomas Isaksson
ExOpen Systems AB
 

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