Re: How to catch an exception?

From:
"Igor Tandetnik" <itandetnik@mvps.org>
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.vc.atl
Date:
Sat, 31 Mar 2007 09:48:10 -0400
Message-ID:
<O0B7mv5cHHA.4684@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl>
"Anders Eriksson" <andis59@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:14qgwkx2xbuss.dlg@ostling.com

I have a VC++ client that attaches to a COM server via
CreateDispatch(). I then get an object from the COM server via a
function called GetItemDocument(long nItem);

If the document doesn't exist, an exception is thrown, and here is my
problem. I can't catch the exception!

My calling code looks like this:
LPDISPATCH lpDisp = NULL;

try
{
lpDisp = m_project.GetItemDocument(0); // here i exit to
AfxCallWndProc() }
catch(COleException &ex)
{
ex.ReportError()
}


MFC exceptions are thrown by pointer. Make it

try {...}
catch (COleException* ex) {
    ex->ReportError();
    ex->Delete();
}

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