catching errors

[Andy]

when in a try..catch.., is it possible to capture the line number that the code is at when the catch happens? I'd like to do so for logging purposes.

[salvelinus]

exception.getobjectdata is supposed to return serializable data about the exception, but I don't know much about it. You could parse the exception.tostring text for the text starting with "line no...."
I'm not sure if it would help in an exe; since most comments are stripped out, I don't know if the line numbers there would necessarily match those in the IDE.
exception.targetsite.tostring will give you the sub that threw the exception.

[Memnoch1207]

Example

Try
   'Code Here
Catch ex As Exception
   Dim strErrMsg As String = ex.Message.ToString()
   Dim strTrace As String = ex.StackTrace.ToString()
 
   'Call your logging function
   Call LogError(strErrMsg, strTrace)
End Try

[Negative0]

You could also look into using the stack trace class:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...classtopic.asp

[Andy]

that's exactly what I was looking for! thanks fellas!