System.io library classes not working properly

**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:

  1. Create an actual activity for those (it looks like you made just classes, not activities) and use those (preferred).
  2. 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:

  1. 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 :frowning:

  1. You might be better off just reconfiguring NLog - see here for example. That way you can have errors in separate file.

  2. 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 :slight_smile:

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