About exceptions: In VC1.52 this is implemented as macros in the form:

TRY
{
   // try this code

CATCH(CException, e)
{
   // catch the exception
END_CATCH

It's well documented in the help files.

  - Stein Roger

Hello there :)
Im writing a VC1.52 program and my dialog wont work.
Ive just created a dialog, which has edit controls mapped to the ODBC
database(Crecordset object), via foreign variables m_pSet.> ect. but my
dialog is not showing up at all.

So I thought I would try and catch the DBexception.  but "try" is now
allowed in VC1.52 only "TRY" (does this make a difference?), and the
error when compiled is:
**** error C2143: syntax error : missing ';' before 'catch' ****

How should I initialize the dialog so it pops up with the assigned
recordset? What am I doing wrong?  Without the 3 edit controls, just as
a dialog box, it works fine... so it must be the database elements.

My code:

void CCalendarApp::OnShiftShiftdata()
{
        CShiftdlg shiftdlg;
        shiftdlg.DoModal;         // Create instance of dialog class

BOOL CShiftdlg::OnInitDialog()
{
        TRY {
        CtblShift* m_pSet;  // Create an instance of Recordset CtblShift
        m_pSet->Open();     // Open Recordset
        UpdateData(FALSE);
        }
        catch(CDBException *e) {
          AfxMessageBox(CString("Cannot Open Database.\n")
          + e->m_strError, MB_ICONSTOP);
          throw;
        )
        CDialog::OnInitDialog();
        return TRUE;  // return TRUE  unless you set the focus to a control