>>>Look at environmental stuff. What's different now when that method fires?
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>>>Tamar
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>>It's certainly possible that there might be something different in the environment when running from source code, but the compiled app is run from the windows desktop by a small executable loader/splash screen, so the environment, by definition, has to be the same. So how come we run ok when the app is compiled debug on and not when compiled debug off?
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>By environmental, I didn't necessarily mean Windows-level. My thought is that something has changed in a method or other routine that runs before this one. It's hard to suggest exactly what that is without knowing what your problem is.
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>Tamar

Point taken, Tamar. But I still don't see why the EXACT SAME CODE runs fine when the build is done with debug info on and creates the error when the build is done with debug info off.