topic How to get real errors in .NET in ArcObjects SDK Questions https://community.esri.com/t5/arcobjects-sdk-questions/how-to-get-real-errors-in-net/m-p/412573#M11076 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>I'm attempting to develop an Arc Engine Win forms application. However, I've found it very difficult to work as nearly all of the errors coming back from the COM objects take the form of:</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Error HRESULT E_FAIL has been returned from a call to a COM component.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Is there any way to get to the actual underlying COM Exception? I'm caught guessing at what could possibly be the problem with nothing to go on.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Fri, 08 Jul 2011 19:53:29 GMT TomislavUrban 2011-07-08T19:53:29Z How to get real errors in .NET https://community.esri.com/t5/arcobjects-sdk-questions/how-to-get-real-errors-in-net/m-p/412573#M11076 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>I'm attempting to develop an Arc Engine Win forms application. However, I've found it very difficult to work as nearly all of the errors coming back from the COM objects take the form of:</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Error HRESULT E_FAIL has been returned from a call to a COM component.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Is there any way to get to the actual underlying COM Exception? I'm caught guessing at what could possibly be the problem with nothing to go on.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Fri, 08 Jul 2011 19:53:29 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcobjects-sdk-questions/how-to-get-real-errors-in-net/m-p/412573#M11076 TomislavUrban 2011-07-08T19:53:29Z Re: How to get real errors in .NET https://community.esri.com/t5/arcobjects-sdk-questions/how-to-get-real-errors-in-net/m-p/412574#M11077 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>I think that you have all the error information that is available.&nbsp; Restated, if you wrote this in unmanaged C++ and called the member function then it would return an HRESULT of E_FAIL.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Sun, 10 Jul 2011 17:33:38 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcobjects-sdk-questions/how-to-get-real-errors-in-net/m-p/412574#M11077 RichardWatson 2011-07-10T17:33:38Z