In C# how to collect stack trace of program crash

Question

I am new to C#. I am writing a small desktop form based application and I need to have this feature in the app.

If the application crashes at any time, there should be a last opportunity for the app to collect stack trace and send it back to me...

Please give me directions on this.

Do I need a try catch covering the main the entry point of my app ?? or what is the best way to handle such things in a C# app.

thank you,

Answer 1

To catch all unhandled exceptions, Add this to program.cs:

    [STAThread]     static void Main()     {     AppDomain currentDomain = default(AppDomain);     currentDomain = AppDomain.CurrentDomain;     // Handler for unhandled exceptions.     currentDomain.UnhandledException += GlobalUnhandledExceptionHandler;     // Handler for exceptions in threads behind forms.     System.Windows.Forms.Application.ThreadException += GlobalThreadExceptionHandler;     ...     }  private static void GlobalUnhandledExceptionHandler(object sender, UnhandledExceptionEventArgs e) {    Exception ex = default(Exception);    ex = (Exception)e.ExceptionObject;    ILog log = LogManager.GetLogger(typeof(Program));    log.Error(ex.Message + "\n" + ex.StackTrace); }  private static void GlobalThreadExceptionHandler(object sender, System.Threading.ThreadExceptionEventArgs e) {    Exception ex = default(Exception);    ex = e.Exception;    ILog log = LogManager.GetLogger(typeof(Program)); //Log4NET    log.Error(ex.Message + "\n" + ex.StackTrace); } 

Stack trace you can get by exception.StackTrace

Answer 2

If I were you, I would consider an all-in-one solution, such as the free and open source NBug framework,

http://nbug.codeplex.com/