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Last modified on November 06, 2012 13:10
Part 5: Coping with Trouble - In Part 5 of this series we'll work with the application from Part 4 to add error handling.
- Platform: Silverlight
- Language: C#, VB
- Download: Tour of DevForce Silverlight
The DebugLog
When stuff happens one of the first things you should do is look at the DevForce DebugLog. DevForce always generates tracing messages as it runs, and by default writes those messages on the EntityServer to a file named DevForceDebugLog.xml. When a problem occurs in your application, the messages in the log can often help to diagnose the problem.
As shown during the video, if we introduce an error (here we modified the database connection string) a message will be recorded in the log file indicating the problem:
Add error handling
Every application should have error handling, and we've been remiss in not adding it earlier. When using asynchronous queries and saves in the task-based asynchronous API, we can add a try/catch to handle the problem, just as we would with synchronous operations.
| C# | try { var results = await query.ExecuteAsync(); results.ForEach(Employees.Add); CurrentEmployee = Employees.FirstOrDefault(); } catch (Exception e) { throw new InvalidOperationException("Query failed: " + e.Message); } |
| VB | Try Dim results = Await query.ExecuteAsync() results.ForEach(Sub(emp) Employees.Add(emp)) CurrentEmployee = Employees.FirstOrDefault Catch e As Exception Throw New InvalidOperationException("Query failed: " + Convert.ToString(e.Message)) End Try |
Learn More
Here are some links for more detail on what we've covered here, and additional information we hope you find useful.
- Error handling with asynchronous operations
- Trace logging
- Understand logged info
- Troubleshooting
- More Silverlight resources
Prerequisites
The user interface for the application built during this tour uses a DataForm component supplied by the Silverlight 5 Toolkit (different from the Silverlight 5 Tools!). You can download the Toolkit here:
http://silverlight.codeplex.com/