Catching Native Exceptions in CE w/ CF

[Dave Hall]

How can I catch a Native Exception in CE 4.1 w/ Compact Framework? It's
blowing my whole app out of the water. Even when I run it under the VS
debugger, it doesn't get caught by the debugger. It's happening just after a
background ThreadStart function terminates (that is, after the background
thread terminates), so I'm not sure where I can put a try block to catch it.
I don't think that putting it in main() would help because that's a
different thread, although I guess it wouldn't hurt to give it a try.

Besides not knowing where to put a try block, I'm not even sure if a Native
Exception is derived from the base Exception class and can be caught with a
standard try/catch construct, or if it has to be handled differently.
Everything in the problem thread is managed code written in C#. I'm pretty
sure there are no P/Invoke calls in the thread that's causing the trouble.
(I'll check and be sure tomorrow).

Any suggestions?

Thanks in advance,
Dave

 

[Arsa]

You cannot catch Netive exceptions in managed environment. If the Dll in the
P/Invoke is yours, then you should catch the exception in you unmanaged dll.

Arsa

 

[Chris Tacke, eMVP]

If it's not yours, the only option is to write a native shim dll that calls
the real DLL and has exception handling in it.