Unhandled exception in WWAHost in Cordova APP using Angular

Question

I'm currently developing a windows modern app using Foundation for Apps and cordova. The app crashes in many ways during navigation, sometimes even immediately after running it.

The crash is this one

And i can't manage to debug it in any way.

I've tried setting up a window.onerror and a WinJS.Application.onerror catch all function with no results. Apparently the crash happens at a lower level. I've also inspected the event viewer but no info are available.

What happens is apparently similar to this question: How to debug unhandled win32 exception in WinJS Win8 store app which is unfortunately unsolved.

What are my options here?

Answer 1

I had the same issue with Visual Studio 2015, Windows 10 and cordova 5.1.1 when I transfer the project to another dev environment. It only occurs at the Windows-x64 app build configuration for the local machine.

After successful building, the app window launches shortly and after that, the win32 exception like the screenshot from sPoz came up. It was reproducible every time.

I try to repair Visual Studio and also I checked the environment variable from my solution as it is described in this Microsoft Article. But I had no luck.

Nothing helped, but simply open the config.xml file and change the Windows Target Version from "Windows 10" to "Windows 8.1" solved the problem and I could run the app with no error:

After that I can turn back to "Windows 10" and everything is fine. This was reproducable on two dev machines.

I do not exactly know if the moved project was the source of the problem and maybe the rewritten config.xml triggers any rebuild mechanism.