Exceptions in background threads

[chris128]

lol ok not the kind of response I was expecting but I'll explain. All of the programs I make are aimed at IT admins, so they are generally quite interested in the error message details because a lot of the time they might actually be able to do something about it or at least understand what the problem is.

I don't think that even non IT people shouldn't be shown error messages though. For a start they need some message to tell them that something went wrong - there's nothing more annoying than a program silently failing. So if I'm going to tell them that something went wrong and the operation couldn't be completed, don't you think it would be useful if they had something to go on? Something that they can search google for or something that they can report to their IT department. Sure, sometimes it might be an error message that makes absolutely no sense to them but personally I think that is a lot better than just saying "Failed" for every single scenario. I used to work in IT and trust me if programs never told you the actual error messages it would make our lives a hell of a lot harder because you'd have absolutely no idea whether it was a bug in the program, a problem with the user's computer, a problem with the network, the server, etc etc. How would anyone ever fix anything if no error message details were displayed? A lot of the time the error message details are not aimed at the end user, they are aimed at the system admin that will be getting a phone call as soon as the user sees an error pop up.