I'm getting a first chance exception n my debugger but can't tell where it is coming from. Is there anyway to get a stack trace of this? I've tried guessing and putting try catch loops where I don't have them but am not making much headway. It keeps coming.

Thanks

A first chance exception of type 'System.FormatException' occurred in mscorlib.dll

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Peter Kellner
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Run the page outside the debugger by hitting Ctrl-F5 (instead of F5) just to see if the error's something from the ASP.NET plumbing. If the failure is before your page's code, then a lot fo the times the debugger can't get very far. Also, you typically will see the exception and the call stack right there in the output of the page.

If it's not that (I can't quite tell from the description) or it doesn't help, then under the menu Debug->Exceptions you can control the debugger behavior when there's an exception. Find the item in the list that says "Common Language Runtime Exceptions" and check the "Thrown" checkbox. This tells the debugger to stop when there's an exception thrown.

-Brock

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