Finding error location by way of error message

[jd_ie]

Hi all,

I have tried searching for this in the archives and on google, to no
avail.

My application will run on handhelds which will be out "in the field"
so to speak, and I was wondering if there is any way to setup my
application so that if an unexpected exception occurs on a handheld and
we get a phonecall from our customer about this, that by asking them
for the error message I will be able to find out on what line of code
the error occurred, or at least the method or class name?

Is there any way, or is there no way and thus will I just have to ask
them what they were doing when it happened etc, which is of course
necessary in any case but a lot slower than knowing straight away what
line of code made the app crash and being able to reproduce it!

Please help. If there's a way to do this it would be foolish for me not
to have it in there before we deploy it.

Best regards,

Jonathan

 

[Guest]

You can not do it in CF v1. In the V2 they added StackTrace to the exception,
so you could parse the stack trace message to extract the method that's
failed.

 

[jd_ie]

Thanks for the reply!

Well, at least I know it can't be done. That's some consolation!

Regards

 

[Mark Arteaga]

Although you cannot get the method or line number you can work around it by hardcoding with a try catch block.
Check out this article http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnnetcomp/html/instnetcfapp.asp