**Questions:-**1)I am trying to handle all exception at once in a single text file and i made a custom activity but error occurs that expression does not produce value but the same code is working perfectly in visual studio.
2) i have also tried using streamwriter classes to make a single exception and the code i used is below:
In the assign activity- streamwriter sw=new streamwriter(“path”,true)
then in message box- sw.writeline(ex.tostring) and here it says expression does not produce value
and i have tried multiple ways of using streamwriter but it seems doesn’t working here i don’t know why but the same thing working perfectly in visual studio.
**3)**File.AppendAllText also not working.
So i think uipath system.IO library is not working properly so please update it or if i made any mistake then please give me the solution.
somebody pls give me a solution…
Use Invokemethod activity for all void method calls.
ErrorHandling.nupkg (5.4 KB)
Hi Andrzej, here i attached the nuget package i made can you pls elaborate your solution how to use it using invoke method…
Hi Krish,
Without installing your package I can say:
StreamWriter.WriteLine(value) is a void method. Meaning it doesn’t return a value, hence the error is correct. Same for File.AppendAllText.
MessageBox and WriteLine activity require a string InArgument. Since expressions you’re putting in them do not produce it, it won’t work.
There are 2 solutions:
- Create an actual activity for those (it looks like you made just classes, not activities) and use those (preferred).
- Use InvokeMethod - here are some examples.
Reason that it’s working in VS is that you’re (most probably) not running this as a workflow, but normal code. Workflows work on contexts, which requires a specific way of handling (hence activities with [In|Out|InOut]Arguments etc.).
Thanks for ur solution andrzej…but i still stucked on my problem,So could you please help me to make a custom activity for my code i attached below.This is the code for which i made the nuget package and trying to use to handle all error at once in a text file.
could You please help me for the accurate solution?If possible please review and update the code.
errorhandling.html (2.4 KB)
Ok, a couple of remarks - don’t take it personally:
- Don’t post code as html. Use code tags for it (simplest way - put three ` at the beginning and at end:
Like this
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Web;
using System.IO;
using System.Text;
using System.Activities.Presentation.Metadata;
namespace errorcapturing
{
public class ErrorHandle
{
private static String ErrorlineNo, Errormsg, extype, ErrorLocation;
public static void SendErrorToText(Exception ex)
{
var line = Environment.NewLine + Environment.NewLine;
ErrorlineNo = ex.StackTrace.Substring(ex.StackTrace.Length - 7, 7);
Errormsg = ex.GetType().Name.ToString();
extype = ex.GetType().ToString();
ErrorLocation = ex.Message.ToString();
try
{
string filepath = "c:\\LogError\\";
//Text File Path
if (!Directory.Exists(filepath))
{
Directory.CreateDirectory(filepath);
}
filepath = filepath + "ProgramLog" + " " + DateTime.Today.ToString("yyyy-MM-dd") + "." + "txt";
//Text File Name
if (!File.Exists(filepath))
{
File.Create(filepath).Dispose();
}
using (StreamWriter sw = File.AppendText(filepath))
{
string error = "Log Written Date:" + " " + DateTime.Now.ToString() + line + "Error Line No :" + " " + ErrorlineNo + line + "Error Message:" + " " + Errormsg + line + "Exception Type:" + " " + extype + line + "Error Location :" + " " + ErrorLocation + line;
sw.WriteLine("-----------Exception Details on " + " " + DateTime.Now.ToString() + "-----------------");
sw.WriteLine("-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------");
sw.WriteLine(line);
sw.WriteLine(error);
sw.WriteLine("--------------------------------*End*------------------------------------------");
sw.WriteLine(line);
sw.Flush();
sw.Close();
}
}
catch (Exception e) { e.ToString(); }
}
}
// Declare dummy register metadata class to force UiPath to load this assembly
public class RegisterMetadata : IRegisterMetadata { public void Register() { } }
}
Sidenote: that catch body does nothing useful 
-
You might be better off just reconfiguring NLog - see here for example. That way you can have errors in separate file.
-
An activity for this kind of custom logger might look similar to this:
CodeActivity
public sealed class LogExceptionToFile : CodeActivity
{
[RequiredArgument]
public InArgument<Exception> ExceptionToLog { get; set; }
[DefaultValue(@"c:\LogError")]
public InArgument<String> LogFolderPath { get; set; }
protected override void Execute(CodeActivityContext context)
{
var ex = ExceptionToLog.Get(context);
var sb = new StringBuilder();
sb.AppendFormat("Log Written Date: {0}", DateTime.Now.ToString());
sb.AppendLine();
sb.AppendFormat("Error Line No: {0}", ex.StackTrace.Substring(ex.StackTrace.Length - 7, 7));
sb.AppendLine();
// add more stuff here
string filepath = Path.Combine(LogFolderPath.Get(context), "ProgramLog_" + DateTime.Today.ToString("yyyy-MM-dd") + "." + "txt");
File.AppendAllText(filepath, sb.ToString());
}
}
Admittedly it’s not complete and you’ll still need to add what you really want to do there (I just did a barebones convertion from what you had in your code), but it should get you on the track.
Good luck and let us know if you’ll get stuck on something 
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