Worst Exception!!

[Sander Rossel]

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.

public class Naerling : Lazy<Person>{
public void DoWork(){ throw new NotImplementedException(); }
}

[sir_download_alot]

But usually you got an error code and, if didn't helped, a dump which could be analysed. I got mostly 0C7 errors :-)

[sir_download_alot]

Is this the same like BYOD? What I really like is BYOB (bring your own bottle) :-)

[sir_download_alot]

We had an external consultant, and he implemented a very meaningfull error message for all type of errors: "An Error occured"

[BobJanova]

That is so you fix the problem (i.e. plug in a keyboard) before trying to use the computer.

[BobJanova]

"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.

[Sentenryu]

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.'"

[Pete OHanlon]

The fact you commented, says you did. Obviously, you and I are more subtle than the others. :-D

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[CHill60]

Quote:

One day it works the next it doesn't.

Sounds a bit like me! :laugh:

[Michael Haines]

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

[jibalt]

Do you work in the Department of Redundancy department? ABEND means "Abnormal End" ... there was no "Abnormal ABEND".

[GerVenson]

The Operationen was completed succsesfully head vs wall

[theliberator]

Oracle also has a really informative kind of Exception: ORA-00600: internal error code, arguments: [12333], [205], [70], [164], [], [], [], []

[Breamore Boy]

Error number 5692305182344859072314609

[Jorgen Andersson]

In my circles BYOB would definitely be an exception. Except as a present.

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[aayawa]

Apple used to give ones like An error of type 10 occurred because an error of type 10 occurred.

[Tomz_KV]

Jacquers wrote:

object reference not set to an instance of an object

This exception message is not useful at all. It would be nice if it gives the object name.

TOMZ_KV

[gjpt]

Keyboard error Press F1

[Lost User]

I guess the worst exception I have seen is the "uncaught exception"... That one who calls std::terminate() and then calls abort() :P Saludos!! ____ichr@mm :wq

[KLSmith]

Seems to me that worst is being interpreted as either: nonsensical, useless (programmer too lazy to write a meaningful message), or a dreaded message, where something bad really did happen. Here is a nonsensical one: One recent message in my Windows-7 system event log was The service failed to start. Reason: The service finished successfully.