Worst Exception!!
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All of the "something went wrong, but I'm not going to tell you what, why, or even where, neener neener"-Exceptions. XNA was pretty good at throwing those - often in a manner that the debugger would fail to run. Actually native code in general is good at that. For example, if anything happens after the stack gets misaligned on win64, things go very wrong.
In good old days of native c++... now I have moved to managed, atleast the debugger gives me some stack traces... I never learnt how to debug a native app!
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0xC0000005, aka Windows access violation. Detection is nowhere near the place in your source code that caused the problem, and the actual cause usually has nothing to do with an attempt to access any kind of protected object.Software Zen:
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What's in your mind is the worst exception in programming?? My favourite is Out of Memory!
"the application has failed to start because its side-by-side configuration is incorrect" This one gives me nightmares because so far I have been unable to troubleshoot it. The application refuses to start, that's it. No clue on what DLL was missing/of invalid type or whatsoever. Quite efficiently contributes to the arcane mysteries of .NET technology. One more instance of what harold aptroot said.
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What's in your mind is the worst exception in programming?? My favourite is Out of Memory!
Stack overflow exceptions! Although they don't happen often, they are tricky to debug as the stack trace isn't available to me when it happens.
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What's in your mind is the worst exception in programming?? My favourite is Out of Memory!
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What's in your mind is the worst exception in programming?? My favourite is Out of Memory!
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Ah yes the compiler messages of MicroFocus COBOL !!! - miss one full-stop (period) and you would get 1000's of errors. Deep joy.
When the going gets weird the weird turn pro - Hunter S Thompson RIP
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What's in your mind is the worst exception in programming?? My favourite is Out of Memory!
There are quite some Exceptions I really don't like... NullReference, String or binary data would be truncated, that sort of stuff. Mostly because the error doesn't indicate what was null or what data would be truncated. But the worst of them all, mostly because I've seen it not handled correctly way to often, See the inner Exception for details... Ok, so where is that inner exception? Not in some logging, not in some message box, actually it is nowhere! The programmer programming this code did not ever stop to think about the fact that an Exception may have an inner exception. Good luck finding out what's wrong... :sigh: Now comes the fun part. I fixed it and the first Exception I got had an inner exception in the inner exception... Luckily I log exceptions recursively for these cases :)
It's an OO world.
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Back in my dark COBOL days "Abnormal abend", that could indicate anything.
When the going gets weird the weird turn pro - Hunter S Thompson RIP
But usually you got an error code and, if didn't helped, a dump which could be analysed. I got mostly 0C7 errors :-)
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BSOD
Be excellent to each other. And... PARTY ON, DUDES! Abraham Lincoln
Is this the same like BYOD? What I really like is BYOB (bring your own bottle) :-)
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What's in your mind is the worst exception in programming?? My favourite is Out of Memory!
We had an external consultant, and he implemented a very meaningfull error message for all type of errors: "An Error occured"
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Not an exception but with the same flavour. During windows start-up device detection: "Keyboard error or no keyboard present." and below the well known "Press F1 to continue or ESC to enter SETUP."
Never underestimate the difference you can make in the lives of others.
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What's in your mind is the worst exception in programming?? My favourite is Out of Memory!
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I can't remember.
I was brought up to respect my elders. I don't respect many people nowadays.
CodeStash - Online Snippet Management | My blog | MoXAML PowerToys | Mole 2010 - debugging made easierI (think I) see what you did there :-\
I'm brazilian and english (well, human languages in general) aren't my best skill, so, sorry by my english. (if you want we can speak in C# or VB.Net =p) "Given the chance I'd rather work smart than work hard." - PHS241 "'Sophisticated platform' typically means 'I have no idea how it works.'"
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I (think I) see what you did there :-\
I'm brazilian and english (well, human languages in general) aren't my best skill, so, sorry by my english. (if you want we can speak in C# or VB.Net =p) "Given the chance I'd rather work smart than work hard." - PHS241 "'Sophisticated platform' typically means 'I have no idea how it works.'"
The fact you commented, says you did. Obviously, you and I are more subtle than the others. :-D
I was brought up to respect my elders. I don't respect many people nowadays.
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I'm sure there are lots, however, the one that is currently getting on my nerves is "File not found" being thrown by one of my Python scripts when I try to import a library, despite the fact I damn well know it's installed and working. Python seems very flakey when it comes to libraries, particularly on Windows. One day it works the next it doesn't.
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Yes they are, but when they happen, it means I screwed up as the developer. So, I really hate to see them. "I am rarely happier than when spending entire day programming my computer to perform automatically a task that it would otherwise take me a good ten seconds to do by hand." - Douglas Adams
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Back in my dark COBOL days "Abnormal abend", that could indicate anything.
When the going gets weird the weird turn pro - Hunter S Thompson RIP
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What's in your mind is the worst exception in programming?? My favourite is Out of Memory!
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"There was an error reading the document" – Adobe's PDF reader when there is an error in your PDF, anywhere in the document. It won't tell you which object or page the error was on, never mind what you actually did wrong.
Oracle also has a really informative kind of Exception: ORA-00600: internal error code, arguments: [12333], [205], [70], [164], [], [], [], []
