[Mono-list] Using Exceptions with external Plugins

[Arild Fines]

mono-list-admin@lists.ximian.com wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I'm loading many plugins (assemblies, dll) from my App.exe, however
> sometimes a plugin can throw an exception, how can I catch it?, I can
> only catch the System.Reflection.TargetInvocationException cause I'm
> using Reflection/Invoke techniques.. but I can't 'catch' 'internal
> Exceptions' of these plugins.
>
> For example, a Plugin.dll can throw a
> CookComputing.XmlRpc.XmlRpcFaultException and it doesn't works, however
> System.Reflection.TargetInvocationException seems to catch it, but just
> the Invoke Exception.
>
> Any ideas?
> Pablo

The docs on TargetInvocationException has this:

"When created, the TargetInvocationException is passed a reference to the
exception thrown by the method invoked through reflection. The
InnerException property holds the underlying exception."

So tex.InnerException should give you what you need.

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