I have a VFP 7 application that is in development. The client has now found that under certain conditions it can hang.

The code :

oShell = CREATEOBJECT('WScript.Shell')
oShell.Run('externalVB.exe', 5, .T.)

Runs a Visual Basic application. That in turn does runs ActiveX to a control that fetches data from a server using a paid service.

It now seems that when an email arrives into Outlook, it causes the VB program to stop responding. But I'm not doing anything with Outlook.

The problem is deciding wheter the problem is in the VB application or something to do with the call from VFP.

Because of the special nature of the paid subscritpion, it's very difficult for me to test and debug that part of the application. I'm developing and testing in Win98SE, the client runs Windows XP.