>>Moving a VFP 6/Windows XP Application to VFP 9 SP1/Windows 7 and seeing some strange behavior.
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>>An IMPORT from a {Excel 1997/2003 Spreadsheet} TYPE XL8 command which ran fine on VFP 6/Windows XP runs in the Development Environment but consistently crashes when Compiled - a Program has Stopped Working dialog followed by an Internal Consistency Error Message Box.
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>>Anyone else had this experience?
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>Pretty much everybody who had anything to do with excel/word/outlook. There's probably a new version of excel which throws an invisible dialog (or the xls driver does)... and of course you can't see it.
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>Call the task manager, see if there's any excel process, bring it to front and see what it says. If there's none, then I'm wrong.

But IMPORT FROM XLS8 should run independent of MS Excel? It's internal.