>I want to know whether a class exists in a certain library before I try to instantiate it in my program (reason: I don't want to get an error message if it doesn't exist). I couldn't find a function for this and the only thing I could come up with is to open the class library programatically and search for objname. This worked, but I felt a little uneasy about touching the .vcx from within a program.
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>Can anyone offer any advice, caveats, etc. on this?
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>Thanks,
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>Sylvia

You can put error trap on CREATEOBJECT() line and check for errors without interrupting of program flow.