Improvement for error reporting

GieltjE

The error reporting form doesn't send the exception data, below is a modified snippet that adds this data (in most cases this contains a lot of useful data (for instance mysql errors will add the error code), and when calling ExceptionReporting.Report it allows for easy adding of environment variables).

readonly List<string> _keys = new List<string>();
	    readonly List<string> _values = new List<string>();

        public ExceptionReportingForm(UnhandledExceptionHandler unhandledExceptionHandler, ReportExceptionEventArgs reportExceptionEventArgs) : this()
		{
			int newHeight = Height;

            try
            {
                _values.AddRange(from object value in reportExceptionEventArgs.Exception.Data.Values select value.ToString());
                _keys.AddRange(from object key in reportExceptionEventArgs.Exception.Data.Keys select key.ToString());

                int countOnlyOnce = _keys.Count;
                for (int i = 0; i < countOnlyOnce; i++)
                {
                    reportExceptionEventArgs.AddCustomProperty(_keys[i], _values[i]);
                }
            }
            catch (Exception) {}

Why isn't something like this added to the defualt exception handlers?

Jessica R

Hi there,

Thank you for your post!

We've got a feature request to add the exception data to the default exception reporting templates (with internal reference SA-264) and I've +1'd this request with your information--thank you for your feedback!

Many thanks as well for sharing your solution for this.

GieltjE

One of the other interesting things you can do with this is make the exception reporter behave differently when you set a certain value.
For example I used it to be able to send some reports silently without user interaction (Visible = false; ShowInTaskbar = false; and some other small hacks needed).