System Exception

[Todd Bright]

Is there a way to get to the last exception in .Net from outside a catch
block? I've inherited someone else's ASP.Net app that's having problems. He
is calling a method to log his errors but is only passing his custom error
messages so there is no way to know what is really happening. What I would
like to do is to access the last exception that occurred from the LogError()
function rather than have to modify all of the places that it is being called
to pass extra information to it.

Is there anything in .Net that provides access to the last exception data...
Message, StackTrace, etc?

Thanks,
Todd

[Ollie]

check out the Application_Error event handler in the global.asax file

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...sp08232001.asp
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"Todd Bright" <To********@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:AA**********************************@microsof t.com...

Is there a way to get to the last exception in .Net from outside a catch
block? I've inherited someone else's ASP.Net app that's having problems.
He
is calling a method to log his errors but is only passing his custom error
messages so there is no way to know what is really happening. What I
would
like to do is to access the last exception that occurred from the
LogError()
function rather than have to modify all of the places that it is being
called
to pass extra information to it.

Is there anything in .Net that provides access to the last exception
data...
Message, StackTrace, etc?

Thanks,
Todd

[Todd Bright]

I think the capability to have these type of event handlers is really useful.
However, these errors are already being trapped. The error trap is calling
a LogError() function passing it a string. Rather than go to every call to
LogError() and modify the string being passed, I would like to be able to get
to the last exception object from within the LogError() function itself.
That way I'll only need to make a code change in one place.
"Ollie" wrote:

check out the Application_Error event handler in the global.asax file

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...sp08232001.asp
--
HTH

Ollie Riches
http://www.phoneanalyser.net
Disclaimer: Opinions expressed in this forum are my own, and not
representative of my employer.
I do not answer questions on behalf of my employer. I'm just a programmer
helping programmers.

"Todd Bright" <To********@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:AA**********************************@microsof t.com...

Is there a way to get to the last exception in .Net from outside a catch
block? I've inherited someone else's ASP.Net app that's having problems.
He
is calling a method to log his errors but is only passing his custom error
messages so there is no way to know what is really happening. What I
would
like to do is to access the last exception that occurred from the
LogError()
function rather than have to modify all of the places that it is being
called
to pass extra information to it.

Is there anything in .Net that provides access to the last exception
data...
Message, StackTrace, etc?

Thanks,
Todd

[Scott Allen]

You can also look at Server.GetLastError. I'm not clear on what your
application is doing, but this property may work for you.

--
Scott
http://www.OdeToCode.com/blogs/scott/

On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 13:53:02 -0800, "Todd Bright"
<To********@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

I think the capability to have these type of event handlers is really useful.
However, these errors are already being trapped. The error trap is calling
a LogError() function passing it a string. Rather than go to every call to
LogError() and modify the string being passed, I would like to be able to get
to the last exception object from within the LogError() function itself.
That way I'll only need to make a code change in one place.
"Ollie" wrote:

check out the Application_Error event handler in the global.asax file

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...sp08232001.asp
--
HTH

Ollie Riches
http://www.phoneanalyser.net
Disclaimer: Opinions expressed in this forum are my own, and not
representative of my employer.
I do not answer questions on behalf of my employer. I'm just a programmer
helping programmers.

"Todd Bright" <To********@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:AA**********************************@microsof t.com...

> Is there a way to get to the last exception in .Net from outside a catch
> block? I've inherited someone else's ASP.Net app that's having problems.
> He
> is calling a method to log his errors but is only passing his custom error
> messages so there is no way to know what is really happening. What I
> would
> like to do is to access the last exception that occurred from the
> LogError()
> function rather than have to modify all of the places that it is being
> called
> to pass extra information to it.
>
> Is there anything in .Net that provides access to the last exception
> data...
> Message, StackTrace, etc?
>
> Thanks,
> Todd

[Todd Bright]

I tried this but GetLastError() returns NULL, probably because I'm already
trapping the error. All the documentation says that it's used to get the
last UNTRAPPED error. Looks like I'm down to modifying each call.
"Scott Allen" wrote:

You can also look at Server.GetLastError. I'm not clear on what your
application is doing, but this property may work for you.

--
Scott
http://www.OdeToCode.com/blogs/scott/

On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 13:53:02 -0800, "Todd Bright"
<To********@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

I think the capability to have these type of event handlers is really useful.
However, these errors are already being trapped. The error trap is calling
a LogError() function passing it a string. Rather than go to every call to
LogError() and modify the string being passed, I would like to be able to get
to the last exception object from within the LogError() function itself.
That way I'll only need to make a code change in one place.
"Ollie" wrote:

check out the Application_Error event handler in the global.asax file

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...sp08232001.asp
--
HTH

Ollie Riches
http://www.phoneanalyser.net
Disclaimer: Opinions expressed in this forum are my own, and not
representative of my employer.
I do not answer questions on behalf of my employer. I'm just a programmer
helping programmers.

"Todd Bright" <To********@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:AA**********************************@microsof t.com...
> Is there a way to get to the last exception in .Net from outside a catch
> block? I've inherited someone else's ASP.Net app that's having problems.
> He
> is calling a method to log his errors but is only passing his custom error
> messages so there is no way to know what is really happening. What I
> would
> like to do is to access the last exception that occurred from the
> LogError()
> function rather than have to modify all of the places that it is being
> called
> to pass extra information to it.
>
> Is there anything in .Net that provides access to the last exception
> data...
> Message, StackTrace, etc?
>
> Thanks,
> Todd

[Scott Allen]

Yes, that's unfortunate. Looks like operation "Search & Replace" is in
effect :)

--
Scott
http://www.OdeToCode.com/blogs/scott/

On Thu, 17 Feb 2005 06:35:09 -0800, "Todd Bright"
<To********@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

I tried this but GetLastError() returns NULL, probably because I'm already
trapping the error. All the documentation says that it's used to get the
last UNTRAPPED error. Looks like I'm down to modifying each call.

[Todd Bright]

Thanks for the info anyhow.

"Scott Allen" wrote:

Yes, that's unfortunate. Looks like operation "Search & Replace" is in
effect :)

--
Scott
http://www.OdeToCode.com/blogs/scott/

On Thu, 17 Feb 2005 06:35:09 -0800, "Todd Bright"
<To********@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

I tried this but GetLastError() returns NULL, probably because I'm already
trapping the error. All the documentation says that it's used to get the
last UNTRAPPED error. Looks like I'm down to modifying each call.