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vbWatchdog - Global Error Handler v2

vbWatchdog lets you take complete control over error handling in your VBA projects. 

In its most basic form, vbWatchdog lets you define a procedure in your VBA project that will be called immediately when an error occurs.  From within your global error handling routine, you can then gather much more detailed information about the error that occurred (such as whether the error will be handled locally, or whether it is an unhandled error). 

You can also query the internal VBA callstack to determine the exact source of the error (module name, procedure name and source line number) which you can then log the details to a table or file and provide professional error dialogs to your end-users.  You can even log the live contents of all the variables in the callstack (comes in very handy when trying to track down bugs after the event!)

vbWatchdog is implemented as a simple library, consisting of four class modules that you can integrate directly into your application (no DLL files to deploy).   More info  &  price details

Supports all editions of VBA6 and VBA7 (from Office 2000 up to 2010, including 64 bit editions)


Key benefits

-   Allows you to identify the source procedure and module name where the error occurred

-   List the exact line number to identify the line of code that failed

-   Report the full callstack that led up to the exception

-   Allows local error handling to co-exist with your global error handler

-   Choose to either handle the error globally, or just use it as an error-tracing tool

-   You have a customizable error dialog at your fingertips (inc. debug options)

-   No third-party DLLs required - vbWatchdog is coded neatly inside your VBA environment

-   Detailed online manual        Getting Started      Sample.MDB

-   14 day money back guarantee

Advanced features (Enterprise Edition only)

-   List values of variables within each procedure on the callstack

-   A Try-Catch paradigm for simplifying local error handling

-   LiveCallstack object that can be used outside of your global handler

-   Prevents the Access Runtime from closing on unhandled VBA errors

Price

This product is licensed on a per-developer basis.

Standard Edition     GBP £70 ($115/€80) for a single developer licence.

Enterprise Edition   GBP £85 ($140/€100) for a single developer licence.

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Requirements

Any Microsoft Office VBA host application

Supports VBA6 and VBA7 (that's Office 2000 to the latest Office 2010)

Supports both 32 bit and 64 bit editions of Office

Also supports all special editions such as the Access Runtime environment.

HTML dialog example

The vbWatchdog customizable dialog in action!

 

Featured Testimonials

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Joe Anderson (Access MVP) says:

vbWatchdog is off the chart.  It solves a long standing problem of how to consolidate error handling into one global location and avoid repetitious code within applications.

I had the privilege of Beta testing vbWatchdog and consequently I'm quite familiar with its outstanding capabilities and multitude of extremely cool features.  In fact, Wayne added some features I suggested, which have seriously amped up my ‘end user experience’.

Among other things, I develop/manage over 25 Microsoft Access databases (mdb/accdb) on my current job.  I have integrated vbWatchdog into a single library mdb.  Each application mdb is referenced to the library mdb, which connects to a single error log mdb on a server.  Virtually any error occurring in any of my apps is automatically written to the error log, all of which is handled by vbWatchdog.   This is HUGE!

Steve Falla @ JCS says:

First of all, I have to say that this is an awesome piece of software. I had developed my own Global Error Handler, but this is in a totally different universe.

I have implemented it in an Access XP project that will send an error report over an XML Web Service back to our support team, which includes a complete call stack and variable dump.

Keep up the good work.



And for some comments from the official Access Team Blog...



Alan Cossey @ PDTL says:

This is an excellent product. I've been using it for 2 or 3 months now and am truly impressed. Once you have got it up and running, it makes coding considerable neater and simpler. Most of my procedures now have no specific error-handling code in them because SimplyVBA picks up any errors directly...

Andreas Vogt @ AccessBlog says:

SimplyVBA Global Error Handler is the best Tool for Microsoft Access Developers. It helps to build better and secure Microsoft Access Applications. This tool also helps you to get valuable informations from your Clients when errors occur...

Joachim Bartels @ AGAMedia says:

I´d like to recommend the product to all serious Access developers - it helps during development with enhanced information about runtime errors, status of variables etc., but the best thing to me is the ability to catch EVERY error even in your runtime version, but you do not need special error handling in every sub or function - so you´re always on the secure side. And last but not least - the support is very fast and Wayne is really a nice guy!