How to resolve the winforms error "A generic error occurred in GDI+. "?

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I am facing the following exception in my C#.net win forms application.

A generic error occurred in GDI+.
at System.Drawing.Graphics.CheckErrorStatus(Int32 status)
at System.Drawing.Graphics.DrawRectangle(Pen pen, Int32 x, Int32 y, Int32 width, Int32 height)
at WeifenLuo.WinFormsUI.Docking.DockWindow.OnPaint(PaintEventArgs e)
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.PaintWithErrorHandling(PaintEventArgs e, Int16 layer, Boolean disposeEventArgs)
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.WmPaint(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.WndProc(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.ScrollableControl.WndProc(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.ControlNativeWindow.OnMessage(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.ControlNativeWindow.WndProc(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.NativeWindow.Callback(IntPtr hWnd, Int32 msg, IntPtr wparam, IntPtr lparam)

The most confusing point is that, it occurs very rarely when the application loading a form (which contains some rich graphics, WPF work etc.), could say about 90% of the time the form is loaded successfully. but very few times it happens to be reproduced and also only on some machines, at some other machines this form is works 100% of the time and never face this exception.

I am not getting any idea why this exceptions happening, because it also not showing the exact stack trace which causes the exception. Please suggest if one have any idea about how to deal with it.

Posted 20-Feb-12 2:23am

Muhammad Idrees GS

Updated 20-Feb-12 8:43am

Sander Rossel

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 20-Feb-12 10:00am

WPF? No kidding?
--SA

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 20-Feb-12 10:01am

Short answer: you did something wrong. How can we tell you what exactly? Our access to your hard disk is limited. :-)
--SA

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Sander Rossel · Accepted Answer · 2012-02-20T08:52:00

I recently had that same exception. Actually the problem I had was that a program was trying to write a file to a folder that didn't exist. The file was a gif created from the application.
Now you wouldn't guess, but I created the folder and everything went fine. Who would think a Generic GDI+ Exception would really be IO related? :)
Anyway, after Googling a bit I found more people have this problem.
Solving "A Generic Error Occurred In GDI+" Exception[^]
Perhaps one of these search results[^] will help.
The problem with this Exception is that it tells you nothing (I actually think this is a code flaw or even bug in the framework) and you can't tell us anything as a result. So finding help is difficult.
Anyway, check if your code needs (write) access to some files or folders and make sure the file or folder exists and that you have permission to write.
Good luck with this vague Exception!
Hope it helps :)