Determining cause of Error in VB.NET Web Apps

[Fred Nelson]

I'm devloping a Web Application in VB.NET. In my web.config file I have
specified that untrapped errors are to be sent to the page "errorpage.aspx".
This is working fine - if an untrapped error occurs the application is
indeed routed to this page.

On this page I would like to determine the cause of the error and either log
it in a file or send it to me via e-mail.

I am able to determine the page that sent me there from the URL parameter
"aspxerrorpath" - I would also like to be able to determine what went
wrong - or at least a line number where the failure occured.

I have the following code that I have seen in a vb.net web programming book:

dim appException as system.exception = server.getlasterror

This always returns a NULL value - no help at all!

Does anyone know how to determine the cause of an error when you have been
routed to the error page specified in the web.config file? I hope that its
possible to determine more than just the page that caused the error.

Your help would be greatly appreciated!

Fred

[Jim Cheshire [MSFT]]

Hi Fred,

Are you handling this exception in an exception handler? It sounds like
you probably aren't. In that case, you can use the
AppDomain.UnhandledException event (and all developers should be handling
this event) to get that information.

The .NET Framework documentation contains good documentation on using this
event.

Jim Cheshire, MCSE, MCSD [MSFT]
Developer Support
ASP.NET
ja******@online.microsoft.com

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I'm devloping a Web Application in VB.NET. In my web.config file I have
specified that untrapped errors are to be sent to the page "errorpage.aspx".This is working fine - if an untrapped error occurs the application is
indeed routed to this page.

On this page I would like to determine the cause of the error and either logit in a file or send it to me via e-mail.

I am able to determine the page that sent me there from the URL parameter
"aspxerrorpath" - I would also like to be able to determine what went
wrong - or at least a line number where the failure occured.

I have the following code that I have seen in a vb.net web programming book:
dim appException as system.exception = server.getlasterror

This always returns a NULL value - no help at all!

Does anyone know how to determine the cause of an error when you have been
routed to the error page specified in the web.config file? I hope that its
possible to determine more than just the page that caused the error.

Your help would be greatly appreciated!

Fred

[Fred Nelson]

Jim:

Thanks for your help - I'll check it out!

Fred

"Jim Cheshire [MSFT]" <ja******@online.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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Hi Fred,

Are you handling this exception in an exception handler? It sounds like
you probably aren't. In that case, you can use the
AppDomain.UnhandledException event (and all developers should be handling
this event) to get that information.

The .NET Framework documentation contains good documentation on using this
event.

Jim Cheshire, MCSE, MCSD [MSFT]
Developer Support
ASP.NET
ja******@online.microsoft.com

This post is provided as-is with no warranties and confers no rights.

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I'm devloping a Web Application in VB.NET. In my web.config file I have
specified that untrapped errors are to be sent to the page

"errorpage.aspx".

This is working fine - if an untrapped error occurs the application is
indeed routed to this page.

On this page I would like to determine the cause of the error and either

log

it in a file or send it to me via e-mail.

I am able to determine the page that sent me there from the URL parameter
"aspxerrorpath" - I would also like to be able to determine what went
wrong - or at least a line number where the failure occured.

I have the following code that I have seen in a vb.net web programming

book:

dim appException as system.exception = server.getlasterror

This always returns a NULL value - no help at all!

Does anyone know how to determine the cause of an error when you have beenrouted to the error page specified in the web.config file? I hope that itspossible to determine more than just the page that caused the error.

Your help would be greatly appreciated!

Fred

[Jim Cheshire [MSFT]]

Fred,

Keep in mind that the ExceptionObject in the UnhandledExceptionEventArgs is
a generic Exception object.

Jim Cheshire, MCSE, MCSD [MSFT]
Developer Support
ASP.NET
ja******@online.microsoft.com

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Jim:

Thanks for your help - I'll check it out!

Fred

"Jim Cheshire [MSFT]" <ja******@online.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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Hi Fred,

Are you handling this exception in an exception handler? It sounds like
you probably aren't. In that case, you can use the
AppDomain.UnhandledException event (and all developers should be handling
this event) to get that information.

The .NET Framework documentation contains good documentation on using this event.

Jim Cheshire, MCSE, MCSD [MSFT]
Developer Support
ASP.NET
ja******@online.microsoft.com

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