Chris, one of our programmers found that his Debug stopped crashing when he updated his video drivers. Try 'simplifying' your video - drop it one level in resolution, or one level of colors (do you REALLY need 650 million colors? :-)
Can't hurt, might help
Barbara
>I was having the same problem when I discovered this message thread. Nothing worked in trying to trace through the code of a method I had added to a form, not even using ASSERTS as you suggested. (I was running the form from the command window, or the project manager. The method is invoked by the click event methods of two different command buttons, with different respective parameter values). What finally worked was setting a breakpoint on TIME(), which, of course, changes constantly. The only problem now is VFP crashing while I'm stepping through the method code ("this program has performed an illegal operation and will be shut down..."). I seem to incur crashes quite frequently when using the debugger. Am I asking for trouble by invoking a method from another method? The method seems to crash when it hits a REPORT FORM command. Any insights would be more than appreciated. Now let me go see if I have any walls left to beat my head against...