Question

I am currently working on a c# linux application being run under mono. Although, I believe I’ve handled any possible exceptions that might be thrown within my program, but should I have missed any, I was wondering if there is a way that when the C# application crashes it creates a core dump file so I can see the exception and go through it to try and determine what caused the problem like GDB does for C programs.

I’m using OpenSuse 12.1 for my application.

Thanks for any help you can provide.

Answer 1

Yes, you can, but you can only find out what .NET exception happened, dunno if you can do a core dump without third-party softwere though.

Depending on the type of the application you can hook one of the following events:

• if you use Windows Forms Application you could subscribe to System.Windows.Forms.Application.ThreadException

• if you use WPF you could subscribe to System.Windows.Threading.Dispatcher UnhandledException

• if you want to subscribe to a general UnhandledException event, you could subscribe to System.AppDomain.UnhandledException (but I guess if the application don’t have enough access can’t access this event).