Question

I wrote the following code, but the line MessageBox.Show(sr.ReadToEnd) didn’t show anything? Does anyone know what I’m doing wrong?

I want to send an exception object to a web service for remote logging – is there a better method, (minimum amount of code, so I don’t want to have to create a special transfer object that you copy the exception objct to and would like it a bit more flexible than .tostring)

    Dim sf As New System.Runtime.Serialization.Formatters.Soap.SoapFormatter

    Try
        Integer.Parse("A")

    Catch ex As Exception

        Using ms As New IO.MemoryStream()
            sf.Serialize(ms, ex)

            Using sr As New IO.StreamReader(ms)
                MessageBox.Show(sr.ReadToEnd)
            End Using

        End Using
    End Try

Answer 1

You need to reset the Position:

  sf.Serialize(ms, ex)
  ms.Position = 0
  using ...