I am having exception-handling and stability problems with .NET. I will
have a block of managed code inside try...catch and will still get a generic
..NET exception box that will tell me which assemblies are loaded before
shutting down. In one case, some of my DB-accessing code didn't handle a
NULL value properly. But try...catch wouldn't catch the exception and keep
going. I'd just get the error message and then it would shut the
application down.
Does .NET have problems like this? Or am I doing something wrong? I can't
roll code like this out to our customers.
Elsewhere in the application, I am using an open-source .NET library that
extern's lots of functions. I am going back through that library trying to
add exception-handling, but if all it is is a lot of externs, I don't see
what I can do. Is a library like that inherently unstable?
Thanks
--
Daniel Wilson
Senior Software Solutions Developer
Embtrak Development Team http://www.Embtrak.com
DVBrown Company 6 2306
Please post an example of code that is not working in exception handling.
Also, depending on how the library was written, there is nothing wrong with
calling external library functions. well-written libraries are likely to
raise their own errors at the proper places.
-- Nick
"Daniel Wilson" <d.******@embtrak.com> wrote in message
news:%2****************@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl... I am having exception-handling and stability problems with .NET. I will have a block of managed code inside try...catch and will still get a
generic .NET exception box that will tell me which assemblies are loaded before shutting down. In one case, some of my DB-accessing code didn't handle a NULL value properly. But try...catch wouldn't catch the exception and keep going. I'd just get the error message and then it would shut the application down.
Does .NET have problems like this? Or am I doing something wrong? I
can't roll code like this out to our customers.
Elsewhere in the application, I am using an open-source .NET library that extern's lots of functions. I am going back through that library trying
to add exception-handling, but if all it is is a lot of externs, I don't see what I can do. Is a library like that inherently unstable?
Thanks
-- Daniel Wilson Senior Software Solutions Developer Embtrak Development Team http://www.Embtrak.com DVBrown Company
Hi Daniel,
I suspect the most likely answer is that the try/catch block may not be
correctly set up. A code sample would help.
There are some untrapped exceptions that you can catch using
Application.TreadException before Application.Run.
--
Happy Coding!
Morten Wennevik [C# MVP]
Here's a sample of the extern code. I'm wondering if
SuppressUnmanagedCodeSecurity is also suppressing some checking that would
enhance stability.
[DllImport("opengl32.dll", EntryPoint="glEnable"),
SuppressUnmanagedCodeSecurity, CLSCompliantAttribute(true)]
public static extern void glEnable (int cap);
Here's a sample of the error-handling code that's not catching the
exceptions.
try{
UpdateDataSet();
mailBoxWin->fillUserList(GetUsers());
mailBoxWin->updateDataSet(set);
mailBoxWin->refreshView();
mailBoxWin->Show();
}catch(Exception *E){
String *sE = new String("Unable to launch Mail UI\n");
sE = sE->Concat(sE,E->Source);
sE = sE->Concat(sE,E->Message);
throw new Exception(sE);
}
return true;
}
And here is fillUserList, called by the block above:
Public Sub fillUserList(ByVal users As ArrayList)
Try
newMsgWin.fillUserList(users)
Catch E As Exception
Throw New Exception("Failed to fill user list." & vbCrLf & E.Message)
End Try
End Sub
Thanks for ideas!
dwilson
"Nick Malik" <ni*******@hotmail.nospam.com> wrote in message
news:bfMjd.585466$8_6.498363@attbi_s04... Please post an example of code that is not working in exception handling.
Also, depending on how the library was written, there is nothing wrong
with calling external library functions. well-written libraries are likely to raise their own errors at the proper places.
-- Nick
"Daniel Wilson" <d.******@embtrak.com> wrote in message news:%2****************@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl... I am having exception-handling and stability problems with .NET. I will have a block of managed code inside try...catch and will still get a generic .NET exception box that will tell me which assemblies are loaded before shutting down. In one case, some of my DB-accessing code didn't handle
a NULL value properly. But try...catch wouldn't catch the exception and
keep going. I'd just get the error message and then it would shut the application down.
Does .NET have problems like this? Or am I doing something wrong? I can't roll code like this out to our customers.
Elsewhere in the application, I am using an open-source .NET library
that extern's lots of functions. I am going back through that library trying to add exception-handling, but if all it is is a lot of externs, I don't
see what I can do. Is a library like that inherently unstable?
Thanks
-- Daniel Wilson Senior Software Solutions Developer Embtrak Development Team http://www.Embtrak.com DVBrown Company
Hi Daniel,
Well, I'm not sure of the error you are getting. The blocks appear well
coded (it's a bit unusual to see to blocks of code, one in C++ and the other
in VB).
In both blocks, you appear to be catching all errors and re-issuing an
exception upstream with the offending exception encapsulated. While you've
broken a couple of best practices (handle the error locally, trap errors
using a specific error type, only raise ApplicationException or a derived
exception class, etc), I don't see any code that fails to trap the error.
You say that this code is running and, at a point when you don't expect to
get an error message, a message appears showing details of the error. Does
that error message include the strings "Unable to launch Mail UI" or "failed
to fill user list"? because, if it does, then you ARE trapping the error...
and then turning around and throwing another one.
Are you trapping again upstream from the first code snippet?
--- Nick
"Daniel Wilson" <d.******@embtrak.com> wrote in message
news:uN*************@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl... Here's a sample of the extern code. I'm wondering if SuppressUnmanagedCodeSecurity is also suppressing some checking that would enhance stability. [DllImport("opengl32.dll", EntryPoint="glEnable"), SuppressUnmanagedCodeSecurity, CLSCompliantAttribute(true)]
public static extern void glEnable (int cap);
Here's a sample of the error-handling code that's not catching the exceptions.
try{
UpdateDataSet();
mailBoxWin->fillUserList(GetUsers());
mailBoxWin->updateDataSet(set);
mailBoxWin->refreshView();
mailBoxWin->Show();
}catch(Exception *E){
String *sE = new String("Unable to launch Mail UI\n");
sE = sE->Concat(sE,E->Source);
sE = sE->Concat(sE,E->Message);
throw new Exception(sE);
}
return true;
} And here is fillUserList, called by the block above:
Public Sub fillUserList(ByVal users As ArrayList)
Try
newMsgWin.fillUserList(users)
Catch E As Exception
Throw New Exception("Failed to fill user list." & vbCrLf & E.Message)
End Try
End Sub Thanks for ideas!
dwilson
"Nick Malik" <ni*******@hotmail.nospam.com> wrote in message news:bfMjd.585466$8_6.498363@attbi_s04... Please post an example of code that is not working in exception
handling. Also, depending on how the library was written, there is nothing wrong with calling external library functions. well-written libraries are likely
to raise their own errors at the proper places.
-- Nick
"Daniel Wilson" <d.******@embtrak.com> wrote in message news:%2****************@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl... I am having exception-handling and stability problems with .NET. I
will have a block of managed code inside try...catch and will still get a generic .NET exception box that will tell me which assemblies are loaded
before shutting down. In one case, some of my DB-accessing code didn't
handle a NULL value properly. But try...catch wouldn't catch the exception and keep going. I'd just get the error message and then it would shut the application down.
Does .NET have problems like this? Or am I doing something wrong? I can't roll code like this out to our customers.
Elsewhere in the application, I am using an open-source .NET library that extern's lots of functions. I am going back through that library
trying to add exception-handling, but if all it is is a lot of externs, I don't
see what I can do. Is a library like that inherently unstable?
Thanks
-- Daniel Wilson Senior Software Solutions Developer Embtrak Development Team http://www.Embtrak.com DVBrown Company
I trap the errors all the way up. The error messages with which the program
crashes are not those I wrote. They are about not being able to accept a
NULL value.
I'm now investigating whether my problem has to do with multiple revisions
residing on my computer, and an older one being in the GAC.
dwilson
"Nick Malik" <ni*******@hotmail.nospam.com> wrote in message
news:u1pkd.321852$wV.123003@attbi_s54... Hi Daniel,
Well, I'm not sure of the error you are getting. The blocks appear well coded (it's a bit unusual to see to blocks of code, one in C++ and the
other in VB). In both blocks, you appear to be catching all errors and re-issuing an exception upstream with the offending exception encapsulated. While
you've broken a couple of best practices (handle the error locally, trap errors using a specific error type, only raise ApplicationException or a derived exception class, etc), I don't see any code that fails to trap the error.
You say that this code is running and, at a point when you don't expect to get an error message, a message appears showing details of the error.
Does that error message include the strings "Unable to launch Mail UI" or
"failed to fill user list"? because, if it does, then you ARE trapping the
error... and then turning around and throwing another one.
Are you trapping again upstream from the first code snippet?
--- Nick
"Daniel Wilson" <d.******@embtrak.com> wrote in message news:uN*************@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl... Here's a sample of the extern code. I'm wondering if SuppressUnmanagedCodeSecurity is also suppressing some checking that
would enhance stability. [DllImport("opengl32.dll", EntryPoint="glEnable"), SuppressUnmanagedCodeSecurity, CLSCompliantAttribute(true)]
public static extern void glEnable (int cap);
Here's a sample of the error-handling code that's not catching the exceptions.
try{
UpdateDataSet();
mailBoxWin->fillUserList(GetUsers());
mailBoxWin->updateDataSet(set);
mailBoxWin->refreshView();
mailBoxWin->Show();
}catch(Exception *E){
String *sE = new String("Unable to launch Mail UI\n");
sE = sE->Concat(sE,E->Source);
sE = sE->Concat(sE,E->Message);
throw new Exception(sE);
}
return true;
} And here is fillUserList, called by the block above:
Public Sub fillUserList(ByVal users As ArrayList)
Try
newMsgWin.fillUserList(users)
Catch E As Exception
Throw New Exception("Failed to fill user list." & vbCrLf & E.Message)
End Try
End Sub Thanks for ideas!
dwilson
"Nick Malik" <ni*******@hotmail.nospam.com> wrote in message news:bfMjd.585466$8_6.498363@attbi_s04... Please post an example of code that is not working in exception handling. Also, depending on how the library was written, there is nothing wrong with calling external library functions. well-written libraries are likely to raise their own errors at the proper places.
-- Nick
"Daniel Wilson" <d.******@embtrak.com> wrote in message news:%2****************@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl... > I am having exception-handling and stability problems with .NET. I will > have a block of managed code inside try...catch and will still get a generic > .NET exception box that will tell me which assemblies are loaded before > shutting down. In one case, some of my DB-accessing code didn't handle a > NULL value properly. But try...catch wouldn't catch the exception
and keep > going. I'd just get the error message and then it would shut the > application down. > > Does .NET have problems like this? Or am I doing something wrong?
I can't > roll code like this out to our customers. > > Elsewhere in the application, I am using an open-source .NET library that > extern's lots of functions. I am going back through that library trying to > add exception-handling, but if all it is is a lot of externs, I
don't see > what I can do. Is a library like that inherently unstable? > > Thanks > > > -- > Daniel Wilson > Senior Software Solutions Developer > Embtrak Development Team > http://www.Embtrak.com > DVBrown Company > >
sorry I haven't been more helpful.
If you are still stuck, try posting the topmost try-catch block and the
error message you are getting.
Thanks,
--- Nick
"Daniel Wilson" <d.******@embtrak.com> wrote in message
news:O5**************@TK2MSFTNGP14.phx.gbl... I trap the errors all the way up. The error messages with which the
program crashes are not those I wrote. They are about not being able to accept a NULL value.
I'm now investigating whether my problem has to do with multiple revisions residing on my computer, and an older one being in the GAC.
dwilson "Nick Malik" <ni*******@hotmail.nospam.com> wrote in message news:u1pkd.321852$wV.123003@attbi_s54... Hi Daniel,
Well, I'm not sure of the error you are getting. The blocks appear well coded (it's a bit unusual to see to blocks of code, one in C++ and the other in VB). In both blocks, you appear to be catching all errors and re-issuing an exception upstream with the offending exception encapsulated. While you've broken a couple of best practices (handle the error locally, trap errors using a specific error type, only raise ApplicationException or a
derived exception class, etc), I don't see any code that fails to trap the
error. You say that this code is running and, at a point when you don't expect
to get an error message, a message appears showing details of the error. Does that error message include the strings "Unable to launch Mail UI" or "failed to fill user list"? because, if it does, then you ARE trapping the error... and then turning around and throwing another one.
Are you trapping again upstream from the first code snippet?
--- Nick
"Daniel Wilson" <d.******@embtrak.com> wrote in message news:uN*************@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl... Here's a sample of the extern code. I'm wondering if SuppressUnmanagedCodeSecurity is also suppressing some checking that would enhance stability. [DllImport("opengl32.dll", EntryPoint="glEnable"), SuppressUnmanagedCodeSecurity, CLSCompliantAttribute(true)]
public static extern void glEnable (int cap);
Here's a sample of the error-handling code that's not catching the exceptions.
try{
UpdateDataSet();
mailBoxWin->fillUserList(GetUsers());
mailBoxWin->updateDataSet(set);
mailBoxWin->refreshView();
mailBoxWin->Show();
}catch(Exception *E){
String *sE = new String("Unable to launch Mail UI\n");
sE = sE->Concat(sE,E->Source);
sE = sE->Concat(sE,E->Message);
throw new Exception(sE);
}
return true;
} And here is fillUserList, called by the block above:
Public Sub fillUserList(ByVal users As ArrayList)
Try
newMsgWin.fillUserList(users)
Catch E As Exception
Throw New Exception("Failed to fill user list." & vbCrLf & E.Message)
End Try
End Sub Thanks for ideas!
dwilson
"Nick Malik" <ni*******@hotmail.nospam.com> wrote in message news:bfMjd.585466$8_6.498363@attbi_s04... > Please post an example of code that is not working in exception handling. > > Also, depending on how the library was written, there is nothing
wrong with > calling external library functions. well-written libraries are
likely to > raise their own errors at the proper places. > > -- Nick > > "Daniel Wilson" <d.******@embtrak.com> wrote in message > news:%2****************@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl... > > I am having exception-handling and stability problems with .NET.
I will > > have a block of managed code inside try...catch and will still get
a > generic > > .NET exception box that will tell me which assemblies are loaded before > > shutting down. In one case, some of my DB-accessing code didn't handle a > > NULL value properly. But try...catch wouldn't catch the exception and keep > > going. I'd just get the error message and then it would shut the > > application down. > > > > Does .NET have problems like this? Or am I doing something wrong? I > can't > > roll code like this out to our customers. > > > > Elsewhere in the application, I am using an open-source .NET
library that > > extern's lots of functions. I am going back through that library
trying > to > > add exception-handling, but if all it is is a lot of externs, I don't see > > what I can do. Is a library like that inherently unstable? > > > > Thanks > > > > > > -- > > Daniel Wilson > > Senior Software Solutions Developer > > Embtrak Development Team > > http://www.Embtrak.com > > DVBrown Company > > > > > >
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