>[...] error handling strategies and this is one area where
> vb seems to differ markedly from Fox.
Keep in mind that VFP 8 now supports TRY/CATCH, so this difference might be reduced over time.

>Ideally, I would like to recreate this situation in VB but
> if I have understood what I have read (by no means
> guaranteed) I will have to have a Try,Catch,Finally
> construct or an OnError statement in each method.
Yes, I think you got it right. You'll need to surround with TRY/CATCH every piece of code that could trigger an error. This could mean one TRY/CATCH on each method, or multiple TRY/CATCHs per method, or none. When you don't use a TRY/CATCH in a method errors are bubbled up to the last TRY/CATCH in the call stack.

It is different from VFP 7 but I think you'll like the TRY/CATCH better in the long run.