Use the Call Stack window to work your way back up the call stack, looking for corrupted data being passed as a parameter to a function. If that fails, try setting a breakpoint at a point before the location where the access violation occurs. Check to see if data is good at that point. If so, try stepping your way toward the location where the access violation occurred. If you can identify a single action, such as a menu command that led to the access violation, you can try another technique: set a breakpoint between the action (in this example, the menu command) and the access violation. You can then look at the state of your program during the moments leading up to the access violation.

You can use a combination of these techniques to work forward and backward until you have isolated the location where the access violation occurred. For more information, see Using the Call Stack Window.

Originally Posted by chococrack

If its just a problem with retreiving the private member, why not just create a public function within that class to grab the private value and return it:

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int getPrivateThingy()
{
    return privateThingy;
}

int getPrivateThingy() { return privateThingy; }

Originally Posted by chococrack

Also, whats the value of strlen(customer) at that point? Make sure its not falling off the array (just as an extra thing to look at possibly).

Originally Posted by sid78669

I tried to do that as a final resort because even public functioncs of the Account class are giving errors while reading into the customer, private member of Account. I get a Access violation saying the memory could not be read. Any suggestions? It seems like my Array, savings is not working properly.