Standard Error Handling

[James G]

Does anyone have or know of a thrid party that supplies a error handling component
that we could plug into a large VB application, rather than writng one from
scratch.

Should be able to cope with different levels of errror i.e. Informational,
Warning, Critical Error etc and have a number of ways of viewing the errors
i.e. Message Boxes, Log files, log table on database

Appreciate any help

James

[willy van den Driessche]

"James G" <JamesG@BTInternet.Com> wrote:
>
>Does anyone have or know of a thrid party that supplies a error handling
component
>that we could plug into a large VB application, rather than writng one from
>scratch.
>
>Should be able to cope with different levels of errror i.e. Informational,
>Warning, Critical Error etc and have a number of ways of viewing the errors
>i.e. Message Boxes, Log files, log table on database
>
>Appreciate any help
>
>James

James,
I've done an attempt at
http://users.skynet.be/wvdd2/Logging/logging.html

we actually use a variation of it in a quite large application. You're forced
to call the logging yourself, although it would prove rather easy to automagically
add it to your sources using an addin.

If you want some commercial software, Numega failsafe could be for you.
You can choose among several "templates" which will modify your sourcecode.
www.numega.com
Willy.

[Jim Pragit]

Hi James,

I've written a freeware error reporting DLL you can download from VB2theMax.com.
It has a lot of features, including:

- CallStack (shows the module and routine where the error occurs)
- Automatic logging to text file
- Screen shot of user's screen so you can see what the user was doing at
the time of the error
- Silent Mode
- Tons of diagnostic information (error number, description, system configuration,
memory usage, drive usage, etc....)

Plus, if it doesn't do everything you want, the source code is available
separately so you can modify it in any way you want. Here's the URL:

http://www.vb2themax.com/FileBank.asp?PageID=FileBank

It's about a third way down the page. A complete demo program and documentation
is also provided. This way you can try it out before integrating it into
your application(s).

- Jim

"James G" <JamesG@BTInternet.Com> wrote:
>
>Does anyone have or know of a thrid party that supplies a error handling
component
>that we could plug into a large VB application, rather than writng one from
>scratch.
>
>Should be able to cope with different levels of errror i.e. Informational,
>Warning, Critical Error etc and have a number of ways of viewing the errors
>i.e. Message Boxes, Log files, log table on database
>
>Appreciate any help
>
>James

[Michael Culley]

James,

I have used Jims approach in a commercially released app to approx 300
clients and it works very well. The client will email in the report and we
can see the error number, description, the line it occurred on and the
routine that it is in. It also gives the app version plus some other info,
but that is all we really need. From there it is very easy to fix the bug.

I wrote an addin to go with it that adds/removes the error handling code and
adds/removes the line numbering. It belongs to the company I work for but if
you are interested I can ask if it can be distibuted.

--
Michael Culley
www.vbdotcom.com


"Jim Pragit" <NoSpam@NoSpam.com> wrote in message
news:3bfe68f8$1@147.208.176.211...
>
> Hi James,
>
> I've written a freeware error reporting DLL you can download from
VB2theMax.com.
> It has a lot of features, including:
>
> - CallStack (shows the module and routine where the error occurs)
> - Automatic logging to text file
> - Screen shot of user's screen so you can see what the user was doing at
> the time of the error
> - Silent Mode
> - Tons of diagnostic information (error number, description, system
configuration,
> memory usage, drive usage, etc....)
>
> Plus, if it doesn't do everything you want, the source code is available
> separately so you can modify it in any way you want. Here's the URL:
>
> http://www.vb2themax.com/FileBank.asp?PageID=FileBank
>
> It's about a third way down the page. A complete demo program and
documentation
> is also provided. This way you can try it out before integrating it into
> your application(s).
>
> - Jim
>
> "James G" <JamesG@BTInternet.Com> wrote:
> >
> >Does anyone have or know of a thrid party that supplies a error handling
> component
> >that we could plug into a large VB application, rather than writng one
from
> >scratch.
> >
> >Should be able to cope with different levels of errror i.e.
Informational,
> >Warning, Critical Error etc and have a number of ways of viewing the
errors
> >i.e. Message Boxes, Log files, log table on database
> >
> >Appreciate any help
> >
> >James
>