What is best practise for using .movelast .movefirst?

I was told at some point that I should always execute a .movelast then .movefirst before starting to work on a recordset, so that I was sure all records were loaded. But if there are NO records, I get a "no current record" when the .MoveLast statement is executed in the following code. But if I use rstClassList.RecordCount before the .movelast, can I count on it's being valid?
Also, I was unable to paste this code into this post. I had to re-type it. Is that expected behavior? Not to be able to paste stuff in?
ls_sql = "Select * from tblStudents"
Set rstClassList = CurrentDb.OpenRecordset(ls_sql)
rstClassList.MoveLast
rstClassList.MoveFirst
li_count = rstClassList.RecordCount
TIA
LAS

You do a MoveLast in order to make the RecordCount accurate. If you access it before that, the results are unreliable.
You want to do a MoveLast, then a RecordCount, and only then a MoveFirst if the count is greater that zero.
That being said, the DataWindow is how people normally work with a database from PowerBuilder.

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