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Retrieve the LoaderException property for more information…

Here’s the exception I received today:

System.Reflection.ReflectionTypeLoadException. Unable to load one or more of the 
requested types. Retrieve the LoaderExceptions property for more information.

Isn’t it lovely? Do the authors think I have a little leprechaun sitting on the user machine and waiting for my command to retrieve the pot of gold the LoaderException property?

And if not, what do they expect my handling for oddball exceptions to be like? Perhaps something like:

C#
catch (StrangeExceptionVarietyOne ex)
{
    Log(ex.ToString());
    Log(ex.FunkyPropertyOne);
}
catch (TotallyObscuredExceptionTwo ex)
{
    Log(ex.ToString());
    Log(ex.TotalObscurerAdditionalDataCollection);
}
catch (ReflectionTypeLoadException ex)
{
    Log(ex.ToString());
    foreach (var loaderEx in ex.LoaderExceptions) Log(loaderEx.ToString());
}
...

Not going to happen. A good exception should have everything in its ToString(). As in “for debugging purposes, AggregateException‘s ToString implementation outputs a string rendering all the contained exceptions“. This is a good exception. This is an exception I like to work with. Why can’t all exceptions be like that?

This article was originally posted at http://www.ikriv.com/blog?p=1129

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Written By
Technical Lead Thomson Reuters
United States United States
Ivan is a hands-on software architect/technical lead working for Thomson Reuters in the New York City area. At present I am mostly building complex multi-threaded WPF application for the financial sector, but I am also interested in cloud computing, web development, mobile development, etc.

Please visit my web site: www.ikriv.com.

Comments and Discussions

 
QuestionAnother way: http://stackoverflow.com/a/8824250/153923 Pin
jp2code15-Mar-13 10:00
professionaljp2code15-Mar-13 10:00 

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