Does anyone know of a way that I can configure a Windows Phone 8 to generate Crash Dumps for applications that are being developed?
I know that we can get access to dumps that are sent to the MS app store, but I need a dump of an application that is still in development.
Thanks
In "App.xaml.cs" class you will find a method called "Application_UnhandledException". This method is launched every time that your app crashes due an unhandled exception. In the event args you will find the error message, stack trace, etc...
Add your logic here to dump the crash (for example, send an email, or store the log in a database, etc...)
BTW, if the exception is recoverable, you can handle the error and don't close the app setting the Handled variable to true:
// Recover from the error
e.Handled = true;
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I'm creating a Forge application which needs to get version information from a BIM 360 hub. Sometimes it works, but sometimes (usually after the code has already been run once this session) I get the following error:
Exception thrown: 'Autodesk.Forge.Client.ApiException' in mscorlib.dll
Additional information: Error calling GetItem: {
"fault":{
"faultstring":"Unexpected EOF at target",
"detail": {
"errorcode":"messaging.adaptors.http.flow.UnexpectedEOFAtTarget"
}
}
}
The above error will be thrown from a call to an api, such as one of these:
dynamic item = await itemApi.GetItemAsync(projectId, itemId);
dynamic folder = await folderApi.GetFolderAsync(projectId, folderId);
var folders = await projectApi.GetProjectTopFoldersAsync(hubId, projectId);
Where the apis are initialized as follows:
ItemsApi itemApi = new ItemsApi();
itemApi.Configuration.AccessToken = Credentials.TokenInternal;
The Ids (such as 'projectId', 'itemId', etc.) don't seem to be any different when this error is thrown and when it isn't, so I'm not sure what is causing the error.
I based my application on the .Net version of this tutorial: http://learnforge.autodesk.io/#/datamanagement/hubs/net
But I adapted it so I can retrieve multiple nodes asynchronously (for example, all of the nodes a user has access to) without changing the jstree. I did this to allow extracting information in the background without disrupting the user's workflow. The main change I made was to add another Route on the server side that calls "GetTreeNodeAsync" (from the tutorial) asynchronously on the root of the tree and then calls it on each of the returned children, then each of their children, and so on. The function waits until all of the nodes are processed using Task.WhenAll, then returns data from each of the nodes to the client;
This means that there could be many api calls running asynchronously, and there might be duplicate api calls if a node was already opened in the jstree and then it's information is requested for the background extraction, or if the background extraction happens more than once. This seems to be when the error is most likely to happen.
I was wondering if anyone else has encountered this error, and if you know what I can do to avoid it, or how to recover when it is caught. Currently, after this error occurs, it seems that every other api call will throw this error as well, and the only way I've found to fix it is to rerun the code (I use Visual Studio so I just rerun the server and client, and my browser launches automatically)
Those are sporadic errors from our apigee router due to latency issues in the authorization process that we are currently looking into internally.
When they occur please cease all your upcoming requests, wait for a few minutes and retry again. Take a look at stuff like this or this to help you out.
And our existing reports calling out similar errors seem to point to concurrency as one of the factors leading up to the issue so you might also want to limit your concurrent requests and see if that mitigate the issue.
We have referred to this MSDN article for help on locking down the hardware buttons on our device.
The article is pretty straightforward and I managed to generate a prov.xml file with the help of our manufacture however when we try and upload our app to the Windows Store we get the following error:
Package acceptance validation error: File WindowsPhoneReservedAppInfo.xml is invalid: The 'Id' attribute is invalid - The value 'ID_CAP_ENTERPRISE_SHARED_DATA' is invalid according to its datatype 'http://schemas.microsoft.com/phone/2013/windowsphonereservedappinfo:ST_SoftwareCapability' - The Enumeration constraint failed.
I would have thought we would be required to include the WindowsPhoneReservedAppInfo.xml as described in the article above so that when we download the app we can lockdown the hardware buttons.
It's worth noting that if you don't have this file and attempt to lockdown you get the following error:
Access is denied. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80070005 (E_ACCESSDENIED))
For anyone interested in the code that does the lockdown here it is (although the code works I just thought I would try and give a bit of context):
Dim _GUID As Guid = Windows.Embedded.DeviceLockdown.DeviceLockdownProfile.GetCurrentLockdownProfile()
If Windows.Embedded.DeviceLockdown.DeviceLockdownProfile.GetLockdownProfileInformation(_GUID).Name <> "Associate" Then
For Each G As Guid In Windows.Embedded.DeviceLockdown.DeviceLockdownProfile.GetSupportedLockdownProfiles()
If (Windows.Embedded.DeviceLockdown.DeviceLockdownProfile.GetLockdownProfileInformation(G).Name.Equals("Associate", StringComparison.CurrentCultureIgnoreCase)) Then
Await Windows.Embedded.DeviceLockdown.DeviceLockdownProfile.ApplyLockdownProfileAsync(G)
End If
Next
End If
Catch ex As Exception
End Try
We use the role Associate in the prov.xml file. The prov.xml file does lockdown the device as we want it too and that only works if we have the WindowsPhoneReservedAppInfo.xml file as described in the MSDN article so I can't understand why we can't upload to the Windows Store.
Does anyone have any ideas on how I should be uploading our app to the Windows Store?
I've spoken with our manufacturer and they have said this:
I have a strong feeling this cannot be used in a store app due to Microsoft rules…. So it looks like you can only use this in an Enterprise signed application (Which you then side load onto the device or download using a MDM).
That being the case I will have to look into MDM.
I'm trying to debug an issue on a clients machine. The problem is that the problem is a runtime error with very little clue as to where it is. It is an intermittent problem. I know ADL allows me to run the application in a debug mode. The problem is that to tell the user to download and manage the ADL invokation is going to be very difficult. It would be a lot easier if I could just give the end user one install/executable to install and run and then send me the trace of the issue. So what I'm looking for is easy steps for the client to be able to run the AIR app in debug mode. Downloading ADL and finding the install location of the app is going to be difficult to manage remotely with the end user.
Update:
You have to make sure you are working with AIR 3.5 and Flash 11.5 and also include the following flag "-swf-version=18" in additional compiler settings. You then have to catch the global error as mentioned in the answer and it will show you the location of the error. No line numbers of course. Just routine names. Thanks a milion to Lee for the awsome answer.
not a direct answer but if you publish for AIR3.5 (or 3.6 beta), you can get some debug info:
add a listener for uncaught RTEs to top level of your app:
this.loaderInfo.uncaughtErrorEvents.addEventListener(UncaughtErrorEvent.UNCAUGHT_ERROR, globalErrorHandler);
and grab debug info from error in listener:
function globalErrorHandler(event:UncaughtErrorEvent):void
{
var message:String;
//check for runtime error
if (event.error is Error)
message = (event.error as Error).getStackTrace();
//handle other errors
else if (event.error is ErrorEvent)
message = (event.error as ErrorEvent).text;
else
message = event.error.toString();
//do something with message (eg display it in textfield)
myTextfield.text = message;
}
getStackTrace will return a stack trace even for release AIR apps (as long as you use AIR3.5 or above).
Without the SDK Tools; I don't think it is possible to run an aIR app in debug mode. But, here are a few alternatives to consider:
The client must have some idea what is going on to cause the error, right? Can you give them a special build with Alert Boxes or logging or something to help isolate the error to a line of code?
Can you listen for the uncaughtException event? The event will give you the full stack trace ( Error.getStackTrace() ); which you could then log--possibly with other information. Then you just have to tell your client to "Go here" and "send me this file." Or even display the info in some Alert and have the user copy and paste it into an email to you. More info on uncaughtException here and here
check my post. Maybe it helps you to get stack trace with line numbers in a AIR release build.
How can I get stacktrace for Adobe AIR global runtime errors in non-debug mode?
I use it in 2 big projects right now and it works very well.
Greetings
I recently encountered a strange thing. On some of my company's servers when an exception message is printed out (yes, bad, I know. It's for debugging), the actual message isn't displayed. Instead it displays the key for an external string resource and says that "Debugging resource strings are unavailable"
After some research I've come up with the following:
In release mode, Silverlight does not package the xap with the dlls containing the actual error messages in order to save space.
I've found workarounds for OLD versions, but nothing for 4. It seems like there are Developer versions of the SL 2 and 3 runtime which will resolve the errors automatically, but I cannot find one for SL 4.
So my question is this:
What the heck do I need to do to my SL 4 app / computer to let me see the full, detailed errors when it's in release mode?
You can download the developer runtime (which contains the full exception strings) from the GetStarted page - http://www.silverlight.net/getstarted/ - search for "Developer Runtimes for Windows and OSX", it's near the bottom of the page.
Though it is too late to reply, it may help somebody else. We have a web application using Silverlight 4, installed in various test environments. This web application consumes more than one WCF services. All but one of the test environment sites consistently failed with message "Debugging Resource strings are unavailable". Agreeably the real exception was swallowed. Being a Silverlight application, there was no logging, and it always appeared that there was something failing in the Silverlight component. I connected the application in my development environment to that particular test environment, and found out that the problem was in fact in one of the WCF services. I fixed the problem at the service end and the SL component stopped having this problem.
Why was the WCF failing?
The WCF service had the following code in the constructor:
public MyService()
{
//Create an instance of Data Lookup service asycnchronously.
if (_dataLookupSrvc == null)
{
try
{
System.Threading.Tasks.Task.Factory.StartNew(() => _dataLookupSrvc = new LookupDataService.LookupDataService());
}
catch (Exception ex)
{
_log.Error<Exception>(ex);
}
}
}
Somebody moved the underlying LookupDataService.dll from the service folder causing the constructor to fail, but not right away. As the LookupDataService instance was created in anonymous method, the exception logging in this method never took place. Once the LookupDataService.dll was dropped in the service folder, the "Debugging Resource strings are unavailable" message went away.
It was a fun wild goose chase!
Have you already checked the event viewer on the machine where the application crashed? Start->Run. eventvwr
I've created a website using HTML 5 offline Application Cache and it works well in most cases, but for some users it fails. In Chrome, when the application is being cached, the progress is displayed for each file and also error messages if something goes wrong, like:
Application Cache Checking event
Application Cache Downloading event
...
Application Cache Progress event (7 of 521) http://localhost/HTML5App/js/main.js
...
Application Cache Error event: Failed to commit new cache to storage, would exceed quota.
I've added event listeners to window.applicationCache (error, noupdate, obsolete, etc.), but there is no information stored on the nature of the error.
Is there a way to access this information from the web site using JavaScript ?
I would like to determine somehow which file caused the error or what kind of error occurred.
I believe that the spec doesn't mention that the exact cause of the exception should be included in the error. Currently the console is your only friend.
To wit, your current error "exceed quota" is due to the fact that Chrome currently limits the storage to 5MB. You can work around this by creating an app package that requests unlimited_Storage via the permission model. See http://code.google.com/chrome/apps/docs/developers_guide.html#live for more details.
If you want specific error messages on the "onerror" handler raise a bug on http://crbug.com/new