There's an extremely clever article on using ActiveAccessibility to interactively debug COM servers (dll and exe) at:
http://www.theproblemsolver.nl/aspdevelopmentanddebugging/index.htm
>>>>What's supposedly broken is the ActiveAccessablility stuff. Apparently it is an XP issue ... it doesn't work as documented.
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>>>You things like AccessibleObjectFromWindow() and AccessibleChildren(), right? I know that there are some updates available for XP. Perhaps one of those addresses this issue. Certainly, if it is an XP issue, other testing programs will be impacted as well. So I'd expect the issue, if it hasn't been addressed yet, will be in an upcoming SP.
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>>Good point, George. I wonder if Charles has the recent XP SP installed. If not, it might be worth a shot.
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>I have MS Updates on Live all the time. XP is as updated as it gets. Are you saying the Test Harness works for you in XP?
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>Rick Schummer has said he has confirmation from MS that is doesn't work. There are papers on the MS Website about how to test testing programs with XP - but they obviously never did this with the test harness (yes, I realize this shipped before XP) The paper that is supposed to outline the differences is a placeholder from April.
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>I will try to step through the test harness, but I don't think the part that is crashing is going to be accessible in the VFP debugger.
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>I've sent a message to John Koziol on this. Kind of surprised no one else here on the UT has mentioned it, thought maybe I just missed it.
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>Doesn't anyone else use the Test Harness?