[AccessD] Access 2007 - The story so far.

Mark Simms marksimms at verizon.net
Wed Aug 17 14:53:40 CDT 2011


Interesting subject. I remember debugging an Excel VBA addin.
I discovered that if you didn't trap errors in a form's Initialize event,
Excel just "bugged-out".....completely...when an error occurred there.
No error message, nothing. This was back in the 2003 release.
>
> I'm in your camp (I think) on error handling.
>
> In development phase, I only use errorhandling when it is required for
> the logic (like back in the VB6 days, before collections had
> .Contains),
> or when there was a situation that I can't program around to prevent
> errors. (like if I am dividing by x, I can verify beforehand that x is
> not zero...but if I am sending a command to a database, and that
> command
> might fail, the only way to catch it is with errorhandling).
>
> Now most of my finished stuff has errorhandling through out, depending
> on the system, the platform and the processes.
>
> Drew





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