How to diagnose MS access crashes

Question

We have a custom program written in Access that has odd crashes in it. We have added error handling that records and emails any crashes that happen inside of our own code a

Answer 1

For anyone else who stumbles across this thread in Google here are another couple of causes for random Access crashes:

Just for background, I have a form with a subform on it, loading data from linked tables on a server.

• If you have "_Enter" events on the fields on the parent form this may cause Access to go into an endless loop, repeatedly firing these events. This occurred when I was on the subform, and pressed a button on the parent form. I replaced all these with "_GotFocus" events instead which fixed the problem.

• Do not reference the subform in the onLoad even of the parent form. This one was random, the form would load fine and then the next time you went into the same form, with the same record, it would cause Access to crash. So I removed all references to the subform in the onLoad event of the parent form and it now seems to work fine. I especially noticed this when my internet connection was slow, it appeared that the main form was loading before the subform and so when it referenced it it hadn't loaded and so caused all sorts of issues with Access, which invariable ended in a random crash of Access.