FatalExecutionEngineError in the WebBrowser control
I created a little piece of software which was supposed to get as much of the content I was interested in, then display it in a browser. It was a WPF application, but I doubt it matters that much, since the WebBrowser control there is still based on the Internet Explorer COM control that is also used in Windows Forms.
Anyway, the idea was simple: connect to the URL of the item I was selecting, display the page in the browser and, if the title of the loaded document was that of an error page (hence, the browser could not load it - I found no decent way to determine the response error code) I would display the HTML content that I gathered earlier. These two feats were, of course, realized using the Navigate and NavigateToString methods - more or less hacked to look like valid MVVM for WPF :-P. Everything worked, went to the place where the Internet is a far away myth - my Italian residence, started the application and ...
FatalExecutionEngineError was detected Message: The runtime has encountered a fatal error. The address of the error was at 0x64808539, on thread 0xf84. The error code is 0x80131623. This error may be a bug in the CLR or in the unsafe or non-verifiable portions of user code. Common sources of this bug include user marshaling errors for COM-interop or PInvoke, which may corrupt the stack.. Ignore the hexadecimal numbers, I strongly doubt they were much help.
This horrible looking exception was thrown through a try/catch block and I could find no easy way to get to the source of the problem. The InnerException wasn't too helpful either: System.ExecutionEngineException was unhandled HResult=-2146233082 Message=Exception of type 'System.ExecutionEngineException' was thrown.
I did what every experienced professional does in these situations: googled for "WPF WebBrowser not working!!!". And I found this guy: Fatal Execution Error on browser ReadyState, who described a similar situation caused by interogating the document readyState property, which I was also doing! Amazingly, it worked. At first.
The second step of the operation was to go with this software to the place where the Internet exists, but it is guarded by huge trolls that live under the gateway - my Italian/European Commission workplace. Kaboom! The dreaded exception appeared again, even if I had configured my software to work with a firewall and an http proxy. Meanwhile, the harddrive of my laptop failed and I had to reinstall the software on the computer, from Windows 8 to Windows 7. Same error now consistently appeared at home.
At the end of this chain of events, the other tool of the software professional - blind trial and error - prevailed. All I had to do was to NavigateToString via the WebBrowser control Dispatcher, thus:
wbMain.Dispatcher.BeginInvoke(new Action(() =>
{
wbMain.NavigateToString(content);
}));
... and everyone lived happily ever after.
Anyway, the idea was simple: connect to the URL of the item I was selecting, display the page in the browser and, if the title of the loaded document was that of an error page (hence, the browser could not load it - I found no decent way to determine the response error code) I would display the HTML content that I gathered earlier. These two feats were, of course, realized using the Navigate and NavigateToString methods - more or less hacked to look like valid MVVM for WPF :-P. Everything worked, went to the place where the Internet is a far away myth - my Italian residence, started the application and ...
FatalExecutionEngineError was detected Message: The runtime has encountered a fatal error. The address of the error was at 0x64808539, on thread 0xf84. The error code is 0x80131623. This error may be a bug in the CLR or in the unsafe or non-verifiable portions of user code. Common sources of this bug include user marshaling errors for COM-interop or PInvoke, which may corrupt the stack.. Ignore the hexadecimal numbers, I strongly doubt they were much help.
This horrible looking exception was thrown through a try/catch block and I could find no easy way to get to the source of the problem. The InnerException wasn't too helpful either: System.ExecutionEngineException was unhandled HResult=-2146233082 Message=Exception of type 'System.ExecutionEngineException' was thrown.
I did what every experienced professional does in these situations: googled for "WPF WebBrowser not working!!!". And I found this guy: Fatal Execution Error on browser ReadyState, who described a similar situation caused by interogating the document readyState property, which I was also doing! Amazingly, it worked. At first.
The second step of the operation was to go with this software to the place where the Internet exists, but it is guarded by huge trolls that live under the gateway - my Italian/European Commission workplace. Kaboom! The dreaded exception appeared again, even if I had configured my software to work with a firewall and an http proxy. Meanwhile, the harddrive of my laptop failed and I had to reinstall the software on the computer, from Windows 8 to Windows 7. Same error now consistently appeared at home.
At the end of this chain of events, the other tool of the software professional - blind trial and error - prevailed. All I had to do was to NavigateToString via the WebBrowser control Dispatcher, thus:
wbMain.Dispatcher.BeginInvoke(new Action(() =>
{
wbMain.NavigateToString(content);
}));
... and everyone lived happily ever after.
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