Bill,
What Stoitcho & I are suggesting is:
MessageBox.Show(this, "Data Error:\n" + err.Message);
As long as SummaryView_Load is in a form.
Also, rather scattering try/catch/MessageBox all over my app I would use a
global exception handler with a single try/catch/MessageBox that is able to
log the exception & show it to the user.
Depending on the type of application you are creating, .NET has three
different global exception handlers.
For ASP.NET look at:
System.Web.HttpApplication.Error event
Normally placed in your Global.asax file.
For console applications look at:
System.AppDomain.UnhandledException event
Use AddHandler in your Sub Main.
For Windows Forms look at:
System.Windows.Forms.Application.ThreadException event
Use AddHandler in your Sub Main.
It can be beneficial to combine the above global handlers in your app, as
well as wrap your Sub Main in a try catch itself.
There is an article in the June 2004 MSDN Magazine that shows how to
implement the global exception handling in .NET that explains why & when you
use multiple of the above handlers...
http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/is...T/default.aspx
For example: In my Windows Forms apps I would have a handler attached to the
Application.ThreadException event, plus a Try/Catch in my Main. The
Try/Catch in Main only catches exceptions if the constructor of the MainForm
raises an exception, the Application.ThreadException handler will catch all
uncaught exceptions from any form/control event handlers.
Hope this helps
Jay
"Bill" <nf*@nospam.com> wrote in message
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"Stoitcho Goutsev (100) [C# MVP]" <10*@100.com> wrote in message
news:u9**************@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl... Hi Bill,
I can't reproduce your problem. However try to pass reference to the
form as messagebox' owner.
If it doesn't help I would suggest you to post some code that
demonstrates the problem.
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Stoitcho Goutsev (100) [C# MVP]
I am displaying the error message as follows:
private void SummaryView_Load(object sender, System.EventArgs e)
{
try
{
twsDS1 = SummaryBO.Instance.twsDS;
}
catch (Exception err)
{
MessageBox.Show("Data Error:\n" + err.Message);
return;
}
}
