Dr Watson Error - what's it all about Alfie.......

[sandra64]

My collegue has written a VB application and I am testing it. I keep getting the above and it throws me out of the application.

Not that bothered as I have now put the application on Terminal server and will test that way but I was wondering if any of you are experiencing the above and knows why it is happening.

Also, can it be switched off so that it doesn't check etc etc. I haven't really looked into it yet but I will. Thought I'd try this first and see if anyone can shed any light on it.

cheers
Sandra

 

[chiph]

Dr. Watson is the Windows default debugger (ie. you get him if you don't have Visual C++ or VS.NET installed). Usually he shows up when you have a access exception (program had a pointer that accessed memory it wasn't authorized to), or the code has debug breakpoint still in it (not really possible with VB). If the program uses memcpy (aka RtlCopyMemory), or calls API functions, I would focus my attention there.

Chip H.