Q: Deploy apps with debug info.

[Visual Systems AB \(Martin Arvidsson\)]

Hi!

I have created an application that doesn't quite work on my co-workers
computer.
I want to install the app with debug information, in my crazy mind i thought
that when an exception was thrown, a window would appear giving me a bit
information, but noo...

He is running windows 2k... What do i have to do in order to fix that?

Regards

Martin

[Salvador]

Hi,

When you compile an app in debug mode actually is only a compiler
definition. So you remove some ASM enhancements, arithmetic flows, etc. Also
you build the PDB with symbols for your program. This means that if you have
your debugger you can attach you code and the symbols will be associated with
your code, that's all.

Actually what you should do is catching the exceptions and use the different
types of logging that .NET provides you, log files, events, etc. There you
can dump all the information that you need.

Best regards
Salva

"Visual Systems AB (Martin Arvidsson)" wrote:

Hi!

I have created an application that doesn't quite work on my co-workers
computer.
I want to install the app with debug information, in my crazy mind i thought
that when an exception was thrown, a window would appear giving me a bit
information, but noo...

He is running windows 2k... What do i have to do in order to fix that?

Regards

Martin

[glenn]

well, first of all nothing... debug info is used by a debugger in order to
get at the contents of your source code for purposes of debugging, but you
can't just have better errors popup just because you've included debug info.
If you do not have access to a debugger on your other computers then you
must resort to adding your own debug info in the way of error trapping and
showing messages along the way that will help you to see what is going on.
Or writing to a text file as you run through the program.

There may be other tricks that work better as well, but just including debug
info won't help you with your problem.

good luck,

glenn
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Hi!

I have created an application that doesn't quite work on my co-workers
computer.
I want to install the app with debug information, in my crazy mind i thought that when an exception was thrown, a window would appear giving me a bit
information, but noo...

He is running windows 2k... What do i have to do in order to fix that?

Regards

Martin