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Suggestion for error formatting
Have you guys considered calling Exception.ToString() and using that to fill in the error dialog box? That would make errors like this a little easier to read for the novice user. For instance, when my network was down, I got this message, which didn't include the type of the exception, and the exception message was tacked on to the end of the stack trace.
Error Getting File List: System at System.Net.HttpWebRequest.CheckFinalStatus() [..snip..] at System.Data.DataSet.ReadXml(String fileName) at WindowsApplication7.Form1.DownloadExtras()The underlying connection was closed: The remote name could not be resolved. How about something like this instead? (Note that Exception.ToString() handles nested exceptions too!) Error Getting File List System.IO.IOException: The underlying connection was closed: The remote name could not be resolved. at System.Net.HttpWebRequest.CheckFinalStatus() [..snip..] at System.Data.DataSet.ReadXml(String fileName) at WindowsApplication7.Form1.DownloadExtras() |
thanks, thats alot better. Ive never had any real programming classes before(although now that i just started college this year im taking one :D ) so i kinda just picked things up as i went while i was making the updater and this was the first "real" program that i made.
thanks for the suggestion and i will put it in the next version of the updater which will probably come out at the same time the new eq2map site goes up. |
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