My program only works in the debug folder in a certian project VB.NET

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hi everyone the problem im having is hard to explain but my program is a filesystem watcher program and i made a project run it in debugger vb.net and it worked fine but when i move the built exe and all necessary .dll files the program runs, i get know errors but it just doesnt work. the filesystem watcher does nothing. so i created another project with all the same files and didnt work in the new project now will only run in that one project folder in debug folder and there is no mention in any of my code the directory can anyone help.

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ive searched online but not sure if anyones ever had this error.

Posted 23-Oct-17 4:47am

OfficalCodexPH

Updated 23-Oct-17 7:54am

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F-ES Sitecore 23-Oct-17 10:57am

Add logging to your app, look at something like log4net, and log method calls and variables. For example it could be you are not watching the folder you think you are.

Richard MacCutchan 23-Oct-17 10:58am

Well without more information it is difficult to suggest anything beyond saying, add some debugging and logging to your program to try and find out what is happening.

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OriginalGriff · Accepted Answer · 2017-10-23T05:02:00

Without your full application code, there isn't anything we can do - and your full app is going to be far too big for us to wade through in a reasonable time period.

So you are going to have to gather information for yourself.
Since you can't use the debugger, you will have to fall back onto the old methods, and start by adding logging code to you app so that post crash you can find out how far it got, and narrow down where the problem is occurring.
When you have it down to a method or so, you can look closely at that and intensify the logging to find out exactly where it fails, and what the variables in the code are holding at the time.
Without that, nobody can even start to help you fix this!

Sorry, but it's up to you to gather what information you can here, we can't do any of that for you.

Dave Kreskowiak · Accepted Answer · 2017-10-23T07:54:00

Solution 2

There's nothing wrong with the FileSystemWatcher, so it's down to your code.

My biggest suspicion is that you're not using a fully qualified (starts with a drive letter or UNC) path. The biggest newb mistake is assuming what the "current directory" is and just using relative paths from that. Don't!

ALWAYS build fully qualified paths to the files and folders you're using.

Posted 23-Oct-17 7:54am

Dave Kreskowiak

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OfficalCodexPH 23-Oct-17 15:08pm

what i dont understand dude is why the hell it works fine in one projects debugger only in any cpu and only in dubug not release and when i move the built exe the filesystem watcher dont work only the notify icon any thoughts?

Dave Kreskowiak 23-Oct-17 15:44pm

Nope. I try not to comment on code I can't see.

OfficalCodexPH 23-Oct-17 16:06pm

theres alot of code dude but thanks anyways