Thanks for advise. I'm using NT4 & yes, in debug mode... BTW using VC++ 6

I've tried that stack window and I guess the problem lies in the following statement...

vName.SetString(m_strName,VT_BSTRT);
m_rsRecords.SetFieldValue("Name",vName);

The problem is I haven't the slightess clue why this doesn't work, cos I did exactly as the VC++ MFC example suggested. (see "A Beginner's Guide to using Databases from MFC with DAO" by Nigel Thompson.)

Anyway, I've a bunch of error from the output window during the debug, if its any help in shedding some light to this problem...

coming back to the problematic statements, it seems that SetString has failed me by not capturing the information, but I don't know why.....

output window~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Loaded 'C:\WINNT\System32\ntdll.dll', no matching symbolic information found.
Loaded 'C:\WINNT\system32\MFC42D.DLL', no matching symbolic information found.
Loaded 'C:\WINNT\system32\MSVCRTD.DLL', no matching symbolic information found.
Loaded 'C:\WINNT\system32\KERNEL32.DLL', no matching symbolic information found.
Loaded 'C:\WINNT\system32\GDI32.DLL', no matching symbolic information found.
Loaded 'C:\WINNT\system32\USER32.DLL', no matching symbolic information found.
Loaded 'C:\WINNT\system32\ADVAPI32.DLL', no matching symbolic information found.
Loaded 'C:\WINNT\system32\RPCRT4.DLL', no matching symbolic information found.
Loaded 'C:\WINNT\system32\MFCO42D.DLL', no matching symbolic information found.
Loaded 'C:\WINNT\system32\MFCD42D.DLL', no matching symbolic information found.
Loaded 'C:\WINNT\system32\indicdll.dll', no matching symbolic information found.
Loaded 'C:\WINNT\system32\imm32.dll', no matching symbolic information found.
Loaded 'C:\Program Files\Hotbar\bin\4.2.8.0\HbHostOE.dll', no matching symbolic information found.
Loaded 'C:\WINNT\system32\COMCTL32.DLL', no matching symbolic information found.
Loaded 'C:\WINNT\system32\msidle.dll', no matching symbolic information found.
Warning: no message line prompt for ID 0x8003.
Loaded 'C:\WINNT\system32\OLEAUT32.DLL', no matching symbolic information found.
Loaded 'C:\WINNT\system32\OLE32.DLL', no matching symbolic information found.
Loaded 'C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\DAO\DAO350.DLL', no matching symbolic information found.
Loaded 'C:\WINNT\system32\msvcrt40.dll', no matching symbolic information found.
Loaded 'C:\WINNT\system32\MSVCRT.DLL', no matching symbolic information found.
Loaded symbols for 'C:\WINNT\system32\MSVCIRT.DLL'
Loaded 'C:\WINNT\system32\MSJET35.DLL', no matching symbolic information found.
Loaded 'C:\WINNT\system32\VBAJET32.DLL', no matching symbolic information found.
Loaded 'C:\WINNT\system32\EXPSRV.DLL', no matching symbolic information found.
First-chance exception in Test.exe (MFCO42D.DLL): 0xC0000005: Access Violation.
The program 'D:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\MyProjects\Test.2.1\Debug\Test.exe' has exited with code 0 (0x0).