Hi Ted,

Actually, C5s are unhandled exceptions and can be caused be a variety of situations...if the code, for example, expects a certain cast or value at a certain point it might C5.

As to your report preview C5, I can tell you that this specific issue was resolved...does not occur in VFP8.


>Let me confess I am jumping into the middle of this :}
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>I have seen a number of C005's - under strange circumstances.
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>C005 is a result of an invalid memory reference -
>1) you don't have access rights
>2) it's nolonger in your address space
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>The typical cause of one of these is a reference to something through a pointer after what is being pointed at is now invalid. Someone releases a resource but doesn't cleanup, someone clobbers the datastructure for the resource, someone saves a pointer and doesn't notice that resource is gone!.
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>I have gotten them in apps generated using the application framework in 7.0 if you use reports with preview in a form and with the form open but not the current form you close the app after having generated a report.
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>I hope this helps some - I really don't have a smoking gun here only a severe headache.
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>Ted