What’s the best way to catch and report an error?

[Rabid Lemming]

hey ya all,





I am a student learning or more to the point teaching my self vb.net. I am using the 2005 beta version free from Microsoft because I can not afford the fully licence version lol



Any way I am making an application and I want to be able to either trace or catch errors and report what the error is to the user



Normally I would use:

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[color=blue]On[/color][color=black] [/color][color=blue]Error[/color][color=black] [/color][color=blue]GoTo[/color][color=black] errorHandler[/color]

[color=black]errorhandler:[/color]

[color=black]txtHelp.Text = "Warining!!! A error has occurd!" + vbNewLine + "Please alert the administration and inform them of the following error:" + vbNewLine + Conversion.ErrorToString(EventLogEntryType.Error + EventLogEntryType.Information + EventLogEntryType.Warning)[/color]

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But I think perhaps I should be using:

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[color=blue]Private[/color][color=black] [/color][color=blue]Shared[/color][color=black] generalSwitch [/color][color=blue]As[/color][color=black] [/color][color=blue]New[/color][color=black] TraceSwitch("General", "Entire Application")[/color]

[color=blue]Public[/color][color=black] [/color][color=blue]Shared[/color][color=black] [/color][color=blue]Sub[/color][color=black] MyErrorMethod([/color][color=blue]ByVal[/color][color=black] myObject [/color][color=blue]As[/color][color=black] [/color][color=blue]Object[/color][color=black], [/color][color=blue]ByVal[/color][color=black] category [/color][color=blue]As[/color][color=black] [/color][color=blue]String[/color][color=black])[/color]

[color=green]' Write the message if the TraceSwitch level is set to Error or higher.[/color][color=black][/color]

[color=blue]If[/color][color=black] generalSwitch.TraceError [/color][color=blue]Then[/color][color=black][/color]

[color=black]txtHelp.Text = "Warining!!! A error has occurd!" + vbNewLine + "Please alert the administration and inform them of the following error:" + vbNewLine + myObject + category[/color]

[color=blue]End[/color][color=black] [/color][color=blue]If[/color][color=black][/color]

[color=green]' Write a second message if the TraceSwitch level is set to Verbose.[/color][color=black][/color]

[color=blue]If[/color][color=black] generalSwitch.TraceVerbose [/color][color=blue]Then[/color][color=black][/color]

[color=black]txtHelp.Text = "Warining!!! A error has occurd!" + vbNewLine + "Please alert the administration and inform them of the following error:" + vbNewLine + Conversion.ErrorToString(EventLogEntryType.Error + EventLogEntryType.Information + EventLogEntryType.Warning)[/color]

[color=blue]End[/color][color=black] [/color][color=blue]If[/color][color=black][/color]

[color=blue]End[/color][color=black] [/color][color=blue]Sub[/color][color=black] [/color][color=green]'MyErrorMethod [/color]

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i am not 100% sure if either of these codes work or not as unless i get an error i cant test the code.



The question I am asking is what is the best way to catch any error and report the error back to the user?



Any help would be appreciated



Cheers

Rabid Lemming

 

[Troy]

This seems to work for me very well!

Try
' your program code

Catch ex As Exception
MsgBox(ex.Message, MsgBoxStyle.Exclamation, "")

End Try

 

[Rabid Lemming]

hi,

Thank you I will give this code a go

cheers
Rabid Lemming