Hello Johan,

A very interesting article and it expresses exactly what I experience. We spend more and more time on failures which emerge at random, also in pretty simple code which has functioned for years without issues and for which we can more than once not find a real cause. When we started way ...

Microsoft keeps surprising me. Or maybe not.

From time to time I check out the market share of Windows versions. When Microsoft announced that Windows 10 users could buy a year of updates for $ 30, the Windows 11 market share actually dropped. Apparently from Windows 11 users who rushed back to ...

Hello Robert,


Yes, a Goto can fail when there is an index issue.
The RDD tries to locate the "current" key in the index when you do a Goto.


Thanks for confirming this. One more question about this. Currently the program opens and close a dbServer object before every GoTo and it worked until ...

Hello Chris, Wolfgang,

Thanks for your suggestions.

It is absolutely impossible that DBFCDX was used anywhere for opening the database. Also, the code has not changed much and certainly not on the MEF relevant for this invoicing. That's what is makes such a weird issue, emerging out of the blue ...

One more thing: I copied again the DBF+CDX files involved and clearly the CDX is damaged. When I filter (in DV or any other tool) on the records there the incorrect created invoices are assigned and go to the first records, I see lots of records duplicated. Not sure why on an earlier test I could ...

Hello Chris,

I doubt if you find anything there; also the method is created in 2005 and it never showed this problem. Remarkable thing is that in 2 more or less equal loops the GoTo never failed in the first loop but did fail in the second. Nothing else is done with olServer in code in between the ...

Hi Chris,

Thanks for your reply.

No error at all. I've added an IF for the GoTo's (there never was one) and this proved the simple GoTo could return false and then it starts repeating remaining on the same record. If I would have changed something in the code recently, like an action which ...

I am suddenly confronted with errors in the invoicing part in one of our (VO) programs using a routine which has worked for years. Three companies are working on the same server with different exe's (doing basically the same except some client specific stuff) and 1 user reported issues. Basically ...

Hello Johannes,

I posted a reply which seems to have been lost. Here it is again. I installed VS2022 to enable some .Net8 stuff which Syncfusion said to be necessary. In one of my solutions, the Design window of a WPF XAML screen remained empty except a header while the same solution worked ...

Hello Jamal,

I think you are referring to https://www.xsharp.eu/forum/topic?p=32982&hilit=registry#p32982

where you wrote:

In the GetString method, try to change to KEY_QUERY_VALUE to KEY_ALL_ACCESS + KEY_WOW64_64KEY

I hadn't changed it by then as I thought that this was not a parameter and ...