Re: "Unexpected error" strangeness...(ipaq vb.net)

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From: Daniel Moth (dmoth74_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 01/04/05 

Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2005 21:09:16 -0000

> Finally, ensure you're using try/catches, and get the Exception.Message
> and Exception.StackTrace to help narrow down the bugs.

Just to be clear, Exception.StackTrace is not supported on CF 1.0

Cheers
Daniel 

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"Dan Bass" <danielbass [at] postmaster [dot] co [dot] uk> wrote in message 
news:eK6GvV17EHA.3840@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
> Is there any way you can get a PDA, and connect it to your development 
> box?
> You'd be able to debug and step through your application to find out more 
> details of what's going wrong.
>
> If not, distribute a debug build, and saturate the source with debug 
> logging comments which log details of stages to disk, and allow you then 
> to track where the application got to, where it didn't and what errors are 
> coming up.
>
> Finally, ensure you're using try/catches, and get the Exception.Message 
> and Exception.StackTrace to help narrow down the bugs.
>
> Good luck!
>
>
> "I HATE PDAs" <I HATE PDAs@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message 
> news:6DF4A1AF-BE8C-4E69-BB6B-416D323B3DA3@microsoft.com...
>> I've written an app that contacts a web server in order to log in, grab 
>> and
>> display info based on serial numbers entered, and add the info to a 
>> "cart" of
>> sorts on the web server.  It's in vb.net, and uses InputBox(...) for the
>> login form (which is shown in the main form's Load event handler) and
>> HttpWebRequest objects to communicate with the server.
>>
>> The app ran fine in the emulator that comes with vs.net 2003, so i made 
>> an
>> msi of it and shared it for testing.  The installer appeared to work fine 
>> as
>> well, but upon running the program we see all sorts of strangeness...
>>
>> * The input panel doesn't appear on the menu bar for the login form (a 
>> modal
>> dialog a la InputBox).
>> * MSN Messenger is the active form when the login form is closed. 
>> Messenger
>> was not running when the app started.
>> * The tester has a keyboard installed, and managed to fill in the login
>> form.  Once he hit "ok", the main form popped up....but immediately, a
>> message about an "unexpected error" appeared--IN THE INFO TEXTBOX.  No
>> dialog, no "details" button, none of that.  The error appeared, the main 
>> form
>> stayed for another half second or so, and then the app died.
>> * All this happens every time the app runs.  I'd probably see more
>> strangeness if i could keep it running.  :P
>>
>> The testing PDA is an iPaq 5450 (PPC 2002, windows v3.0.11171 [build 
>> 11178])
>> with .net CF v1.0 SP2.  The emulator appears to be running .net v1.0, but 
>> the
>> windows version number is identical to the PDA's.  Both machines have 
>> plenty
>> of memory left.
>
>

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