Would anyone know if when you catch an UnauthorizedAccessException in C# its possible to access the path that threw it? I dont want the error message just the path that caused the problem. The try catch block I have could catch on a number of different ones but I need to report it it and continue on to the next directory/file without adding the entire exception message.
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A:
In the Message property of the UnauthorizedAccessException, you'll see something like this:
Access to the path 'E:\Domains\xxx\wwwroot\Images\main.aspx' is denied.
You can parse the path out of this Message.
Keltex
2009-05-06 15:08:51
This approach is likely to cause problems with portability, localization and possibly newer versions of the .net framework.
marklam
2009-05-06 15:14:24
Yeah I considered doing this however I thought that since the exception message is static and its simply adding a variable to the message there might be some method of accessing that variable directly instead of parsing it so I figured I check first if that was possible.
Trotts
2009-05-06 15:18:50
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A:
Maybe make your error handling more granular so you are only catching a single attempt when it blows up? You could do this (without repeating yourself) by refactoring the offending code out to a utility method - i.e.
TryCopyFile(path1);
TryCopyFile(path2);
TryCopyFile(path3);
Where TryCopyFile catches the exception and logs the (single) path that was passed as an argument.
Marc Gravell
2009-05-06 15:09:57
A:
Keltex is right, catch the UnauthorizedAccessException and parse the Message.
Khan
2009-05-06 15:11:47