Finding the origin of an exception

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Hi all,

I'm trying to make sense out of some old junk I've got thrown into my lap. The problem with this code is that it seems like the original dev just threw in a try/catch wherever the code failed, and it's just impossible to find where some of these exceptions occurred. Is there any way to quickly go to the statement that resulted in the exception?

Cheers!

Posted 17-Aug-10 2:05am

tiwas

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Thanks - will try that next time something crops up :)

Posted 17-Aug-10 2:41am

tiwas

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Nyarost 17-Aug-10 8:47am

Dunno if this is possible in C# but in Java you can use getStackTrace() on exception object. So you can create one global try/catch :D and use this thing on it ;)

Sandeep Mewara 17-Aug-10 12:58pm

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Niklas L · Accepted Answer · 2010-08-17T02:19:00

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In the Debug | Exceptions dialog, you can specify how exceptions should be treated by the debugger. You can chose to break into the debugger when a specific exception is thrown.

So if you know what type to look for, that could be one way of doing it.