Problem with Exception caught without argument - c#

Encountered a strange problem with this event, event wrapper and handler:
public delegate void StatusUpdateHandler(string message, Exception exc, SeverityLevel severity);
public event StatusUpdateHandler StatusUpdate;
private void FireStatusUpdate(string message)
{
if (this.StatusUpdate != null)
this.StatusUpdate(message, null, SeverityLevel.None);
}
void scanDocProcessor_StatusUpdate(string message, Exception exc, SeverityLevel severity)
{
try
{
if (exc != null)
{
if (severity >= setSevLevel)
this._logger.Log(message + Environment.NewLine + exc.ToString(), LogEntryType.Emergency, "OCR Submission Processor Status Update", true);
else
this._logger.Log(message + Environment.NewLine + exc.ToString(), LogEntryType.Error, "OCR Submission Processor Status Update", false);
}
else if (severity >= setSevLevel)
{
this._logger.Log(message, LogEntryType.Info, "OCR Submission Processor Status Update", true, true);
}
else
this._logger.Log(message, LogEntryType.Info, "OCR Submission Processor Status Update", false);
}
catch (Exception)
{
EventLog.WriteEntry("Russia OCR Submission Processor", "Could not log status update event: " + exc.ToString(), EventLogEntryType.Information);
}
}
For a period of a few minutes, the _logger stopped logging messages and instead I received these messages in the event log:
Could not log status update event: System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
at ScannedService.scanDocProcessor_StatusUpdate(String message, Exception exc, SeverityLevel severity)
at ScannedService.Processor.FireStatusUpdate(String message)
at ScannedService.Processor.ProcessQueue(Object Object)
I'm confused how the Event log could get such a stack trace when it should be writing exc.ToString(). I looked at the IL for the scanDocProcessor_StatusUpdate method is not initializing an Exception object. Beyond that I don't know how a nullreferenceexception is getting thrown. When the Log method does catch an exception it swallows it or re-throws it with "throw;". The message parameter is never null and SeverityLevel is an enumeration.

You are throwing an exception in one of the else conditions where ecx is null. In the catch block, you are assuming that ecx is not null, which generates another exception that hides your original one.
You can make your log statement null-safe with the following:
EventLog.WriteEntry("Russia OCR Submission Processor",
String.Format("Could not log status update event: {0}", exc), EventLogEntryType.Information);

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Simulate CryptographicException on MVC-project?

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https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.security.cryptography.cryptographicexception(v=vs.110).aspx
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Main Procedure:
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Doing it right is a mouthful:
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There's a FUD factor here, you can't completely trust a library with custom exception objects that don't set an error code. Still okay, the fallback is E_FAIL.
Can you use the Exception.HResult?
Consider the following code:
class Program
{
static int Main(string[] args)
{
AppDomain.CurrentDomain.UnhandledException += CurrentDomain_UnhandledException; ;
if (args.Any() && args[0] == "/t")
{
Console.WriteLine("I am going to throw an exception");
throw new ApplicationException("This is an exception");
}
else
{
Console.WriteLine("I am going to exit");
//Environment.Exit(0);
return 0;
}
}
private static void CurrentDomain_UnhandledException(object sender, UnhandledExceptionEventArgs e)
{
Console.WriteLine("An unexpected error has occurred");
Exception ex = (Exception)e.ExceptionObject;
Environment.Exit(ex.HResult);
}
}
Then execute this from a batch file twice - once with the /t parameter and the other without:
#echo off
cls
echo Running Console Application with no error
ConsoleApplication2.exe
echo %errorlevel%
echo Running Console Application with error
ConsoleApplication2.exe /t
echo %errorlevel%
pause
In the first run you exit with 0. I've made Main return an int and just return 0 for successful execution - you can do Environment.Exit(0) here.
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I think the HResult is tied in to specific exceptions as per MSDN. However, you may want different exit codes depending on what caused the exception. In this case you can throw custom exceptions then have some cafuffled logic in the UnhandledException handler:
private static void CurrentDomain_UnhandledException(object sender, UnhandledExceptionEventArgs e)
{
Console.WriteLine("An unexpected error has occurred");
Exception ex = (Exception)e.ExceptionObject;
if (ex is MyException)
{
Environment.Exit(10009); // my own exit codes
}
Environment.Exit(ex.HResult);
}
}
class MyException : Exception
{
}
But would you really care why it failed in the console? If you get an unhandled exception then it failed. You can have lots of possible failure points. What are you really going to do with the error code? You have logged the exception out. That provides the vital information.

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I was looking something else, really, but this cought my eye. If you are planning to rethrow exception then you want to replace this
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Get sent mail error

Is there any way to get sent error from the smtp to check if the mail is sent successfully?
var smtpClient = new SmtpClient("SmtpServer");
smtpClient.SendCompleted += new SendCompletedEventHandler(SendCompletedCallback);
smtpClient.SendAsync(mail, userId);
The errors I am looking for are: mail can't be deliver because the mail address not exists, mail box full etc...
Regards,
Meir.
I am not sure what you are trying to achieve but this will helps you.
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For example, if you want delivery notification on delay, failure, or success, you should set the property to
DeliveryNotificationOptions.Delay + DeliveryNotificationOptions.OnFailure + DeliveryNotificationOptions.OnSuccess
Or
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{
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{
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}
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{
// Log error to event log using StatusCode information in
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MsgBox((Exc.Message + " ==>Procedure Exception"));
}
private void CheckExceptionAndResend(System.Net.Mail.SmtpFailedRecipientsException exObj, System.Net.Mail.SmtpClient smtpClient, MailMessage emailMessage)
{
try
{
for (int recipient = 0; (recipient <= (exObj.InnerExceptions.Length - 1)); recipient++)
{
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statusCode = exObj.InnerExceptions(recipient).StatusCode;
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}
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}
catch (Exception ex)
{
// At this point we have an non recoverable issue:
// NOTE: At this point we do not want to re-throw the exception because this method
// was called from a 'Catch' block and we do not want a hard error to display to the client.
// Options: log error, report issue to client via msgbox, etc. This is up to you.
// To display issue as you have before:
MsgBox((exObj.Message + " ==>Email was not sent"));
}
}
Such kind of errors have a asnychronous nature. When sending mail you talk to the local smtp server of your provider. That server afterwards starts to deliver the mail to the target mail system.
So the SmtpClient class can only show you errors occuring while talking to your local smtp server.
Typically when an error like "unknown user" occures on the target system, it will send an email with the failure message to the originator email address.
This post is helpful to me.
By the way if you're using .net 4.0 this one will be the changes on the above code. Sorry for my first post i don't know why it appears that way.
Here's the code:
private void CheckExceptionAndResend(System.Net.Mail.SmtpFailedRecipientsException exObj, System.Net.Mail.SmtpClient smtpClient, MailMessage emailMessage)
{
try
{
for (int recipient = 0; (recipient <= (exObj.InnerExceptions.Length - 1)); recipient++)
{
System.Net.Mail.SmtpStatusCode statusCode;
// Each InnerException is an System.Net.Mail.SmtpFailed RecipientException
//for .net 4.0
//statusCode = exObj.InnerExceptions(recipient).StatusCode;
statusCode = exObj.StatusCode;
//if (((statusCode == Net.Mail.SmtpStatusCode.MailboxBusy) || (statusCode == Net.Mail.SmtpStatusCode.MailboxUnavailable)))
//for .net 4.0
if (((statusCode == System.Net.Mail.SmtpStatusCode.MailboxBusy)
|| (statusCode == System.Net.Mail.SmtpStatusCode.MailboxUnavailable)))
{
// Log this to event log: recExc.InnerExceptions(recipient).FailedRecipient
System.Threading.Thread.Sleep(5000);
smtpClient.Send(emailMessage);
}
else
{
// Log error to event log.
// recExc.InnerExceptions(recipient).StatusCode or use statusCode
}
}
//MsgBox((exObj.Message + " ==>Procedure SmtpFailedRecipientsException"));
}
catch (Exception ex)
{
// At this point we have an non recoverable issue:
// NOTE: At this point we do not want to re-throw the exception because this method
// was called from a 'Catch' block and we do not want a hard error to display to the client.
// Options: log error, report issue to client via msgbox, etc. This is up to you.
// To display issue as you have before:
// MsgBox((exObj.Message + " ==>Email was not sent"));
}
}

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