First Chance Exceptions

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Dennis

Is there any way to find out what is causing a "First Chance Exception"?
Also, is there anyway to turn them off....I'm getting hundreds but all seems
to run OK. I"m using VB 2008 Express Edition.
 
Thanks but I tried that but it didn't work...note that I have VB 2008, not VB
2005. I did find that my project that I converted to VB 2008 did have some
sub-projects thad don't get converted when the main project is converted. I
converted all of my projects to VB 2008 and now I don't get any exceptions.
Thanks again.
 
Dennis said:
Is there any way to find out what is causing a "First Chance Exception"?
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Odd though it may seem, Exceptions are actually "thrown" /twice/:
The first "throw" is the run-time walking the call-stack in search of a
suitable "Catch" block to deal with the Exception.
The second is what /we/ would call "throwing" the Exception, executing
all the intermediate Finally blocks before resuming at the start of the
selected Catch block.

That first pass is a "First Chance" Exception; it's an Exception in
search of a Catch block to handle it but not yet "really" thrown.
Also, is there anyway to turn them off...
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Not AFAIK.
I'm getting hundreds but all seems to run OK.
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This is perfectly normal where Exceptions are being thrown and properly
caught.

HTH,
Phill W.
 
Thanks for you clairication on this topic and confirmation of what I
suspected in that there is no way to turn them off.

When I converted all the sub-projects included in my main project to VB 2008
from VB2005, I dont' seem to get any more "first chance" exceptions.
 
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