Ken,
We are trying to add these two event handlers in our outlook addin. Our
addin doesnt have any UI, except for some message boxes. It traps attachment
events and Send events and does some validation on attachments. We were
trying to put those event handlers in ThisAddin_Startup. ThreadException
handler doesnt seem to work in this. The unhandled exception handler does.
Does it sound right? We also have a background processing thread that does
not access any OOM stuff. How do we catch exceptions from a background
thread? (we have some try..catch)

Thanks
Vidya

"Ken Slovak - [MVP - Outlook]" wrote:

I'm not sure exactly what events Kerem was referring to but I usually put
one or two general event handlers like that into my code as catch-alls.

One I use is AppDomain.CurrentDomain.UnhandledException(). The other if I'm
doing a lot of thread manipulation is to add a
System.Threading.ThreadExceptionEventHandler() to my code.

--
Ken Slovak
[MVP - Outlook]
http://www.slovaktech.com
Author: Professional Programming Outlook 2007.
Reminder Manager, Extended Reminders, Attachment Options.
http://www.slovaktech.com/products.htm


"Vidya" wrote in message
...

No, what is this? Where can I get it? I googled, but couldnt find
anything.
I have normal exception handling that .NET provides.

thanks

" wrote:

Do you have Threading Exception Handler or Application Exception
Handler installed?

I don't know if VSTO is preventing that or does its own thread handling
exceptions. I wouldn't worry about it at this time unless you find your
existing exception handlers aren't sufficient.

--
Ken Slovak
[MVP - Outlook]
http://www.slovaktech.com
Author: Professional Programming Outlook 2007.
Reminder Manager, Extended Reminders, Attachment Options.
http://www.slovaktech.com/products.htm


"Vidya" wrote in message
...
Ken,
We are trying to add these two event handlers in our outlook addin. Our
addin doesnt have any UI, except for some message boxes. It traps
attachment
events and Send events and does some validation on attachments. We were
trying to put those event handlers in ThisAddin_Startup. ThreadException
handler doesnt seem to work in this. The unhandled exception handler does.
Does it sound right? We also have a background processing thread that does
not access any OOM stuff. How do we catch exceptions from a background
thread? (we have some try..catch)

Thanks
Vidya

An addin gets disabled for one of 2 reasons. Either it has unhandled
exceptions, or it's running in the same AppDomain as another application
that has unhandled exceptions.

VSTO takes care of the AppDomain by loading your addin into its own
AppDomain. The rest is your defensive programming to first prevent
exceptions and then to handle any that still might arise.

--
Ken Slovak
[MVP - Outlook]
http://www.slovaktech.com
Author: Professional Programming Outlook 2007.
Reminder Manager, Extended Reminders, Attachment Options.
http://www.slovaktech.com/products.htm


"Vidya" wrote in message
...
We have an Outlook 2003 addin written in VSTO 2005. We deploy into HKLM so
there is no manual way to disable the addin using Outlook Tools menu. In
production mode, the addin still gets disabled sometimes. We have found
out
that one of the ways that user can disable the addin is by killing the
Outlook process while it is still loading. We have implemented ways to
make
the addin start up faster and there is not much we can do there.

Are there other ways in which the addin can be disabled? If so, how can we
prevent the addin from being disabled? We implement ThisAddin_Startup and
ThisAddin_Shutdown methods and these are enclosed in try..catch blocks.

Thanks