Getting error details - Visual Basic .NET

John

Hi

I am having difficulty figuring out the source of errors in an app that is
delivered to a client. Is there a way that a compiled app can give the
location of the error, such as procedure, line no (if possible) etc.?

Thanks

Regards

Nov 20 '05 #1

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Fergus Cooney

Hi John,

The contextual information that you are after is available in Debug
compilations but is omitted from Release versions.

It does sound as if the code would benefit from more error handling. ;-)

Regards,
Fergus

Nov 20 '05 #2

Justin Weinberg

I put tracing in all of my apps with an option to turn it on and off. This
allows the client to turn it on and go about their business until they hit
an error, but not build up unnecessary logs or performance hits when it's
off. They can then send you the trace log so you can reproduce the steps.

You can also add a "global error handler" so that any exception that bubbles
to the top can be handled gracefully and recorded (logged, give instructions
to user on what to do, or at worst msgboxed).

Example here:

http://samples.gotdotnet.com/quickst...orHandler.aspx
Note if you obfusicate the strack trace isn't going to be worth much.

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Hi

I am having difficulty figuring out the source of errors in an app that is
delivered to a client. Is there a way that a compiled app can give the
location of the error, such as procedure, line no (if possible) etc.?

Thanks

Regards

Nov 20 '05 #3

Chris Dunaway

On Thu, 23 Oct 2003 03:21:06 -0500, Justin Weinberg wrote:

obfusicate the strack trace

Is this anything like obfuscating the stack trace?

:)

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Nov 20 '05 #4

Fergus Cooney

Hi Chris, Justin,

That's a case of talk the Talk <and> walk the Walk.

Regards,
Fergus

Nov 20 '05 #5

John

It does sound as if the code would benefit from more error handling. ;-)

More a case of *what* the error is.

Regards

Nov 20 '05 #6

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