I don't think error handling should be used to catch things a lazy programmer should be taking caring of.

>Hi Craig,
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>The problem here is i would also expect an exception to be triggered by the try-catch block, but a open dialog box is displayed to the user instead. I agree with you that the code is wrong and could be fixed simply by adding a if used() But the point of a try-catch block is to avoid unnecessary test like this, is it ?
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>Why would VFP ask a user to open a table or select an OCX (when an OCX is not registered on the client machine)? It is really not an acceptable behavior from a development tool. It's like VFP saying "Hey you, programmer, you didn't do your job properly so let me ask the user if he can do a better job!"
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