Sunt “Error incognitus” Nuntius Vere melior Stack Trace?

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I was reading Madhur’s blog post on how to enable stack trace displays and now I’m wondering: Itaque omni suspicione quin Stack?

Qui simul ascenderant cum eo imperante quid sequatur?

End users will know something is wrong in either case. At least with a stack trace, instare possunt imperium-printscreen, copy/paste into an email and send it to IT. That would clearly reduce the time and effort required to solve the issue.

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3 cogitationes on "Sunt “Error incognitus” Nuntius Vere melior Stack Trace?”

  1. Alex Dresko

    For applications I write that won’t ever get into consumers’ hands, I almost always ignore try/catch blocks altogether. When something goes wrong, we get a nice exception message with all the information we need to figure out what’s going on.

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  2. Jason Coltrin
    I agree. I guess it’s to keep the end user complacent and make them think the developers know what their doing. Or it’s to keep someone from reverse engineering the code and make exploits. The one that gets me is when I build a webpart and drop it into a zone, and nothing is displayed at all.
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  3. Non nomen
    In a similar vein, I’ve been frustrated with the dreaded Sharepoint "File not found" error – only slightly less awful than an "Unknown error". (At least you know it’s looking for a file…)
    Now I learned way back in HIGH SCHOOL programming classes to never output errors like "File not found" without telling exactly what file could not be found! Obviously the software knows what file it is looking for – otherwise how could it know that it couldn’t find it!!! Why keep it a secret????
    I’m paying for ENTERPRISE level software and I don’t want HIGH SCHOOL level error messages.
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