Xbox UWP will not crash

Question

I work on a UWP app that is built for Xbox. I would like to make it crash so that I confirm that crash reporting is working correctly. I've set up button that calls this code:

Object obj = null;
obj.ToString();

If I deploy the app to my Windows 10 laptop and click my "crash" button, the app crashes (disappears), as I expect. However, when deployed to an Xbox (in dev mode) after clicking that button the app hangs for a few seconds and then becomes responsive again and doesn't crash.

Any thoughts why this would happen on the Xbox?

When you test in an Xbox, if you use try...catch, can you receive the exception? — Faywang - MSFT, Sep 20 '19 at 01:33
If I'm attached to the debugger it stops on that code and shows the exception, so it's being thrown — Scott, Sep 20 '19 at 17:07

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Sep 20 '19 at 17:33

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Not sure why, but on Xbox if that crash code is on the UI thread, it won't kill the app.

I solved this by creating a new thread and bow the app crashes as I need it to.

public static void CrashTheApp()
{
    Object obj = null;
    obj.ToString();
}

private void CrashTheApp_Click(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
{ 
    Thread thread = new Thread(App.CrashTheApp);
    thread.Start();
}

answered Sep 20 '19 at 17:33

Scott

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If you have resolved your issue please [mark](https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/5235) it as accepted to convenient people who visit this thread later – Faywang - MSFT Oct 15 '19 at 06:09

Xbox UWP will not crash

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