User interrupt occurred (Error 18)

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The process of breaking execution is useful, but if left unhandled, it results in termination of the application. This error has the following cause and solution:

  • A user pressed CTRL+BREAK or another interrupt key. In the development environment, continue execution. To provide for the occurrence of this condition at run time, handle the error in an appropriate way.

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