Exception Hunter
Latest version: 3.0
Notes & articles
Release notes - version 3.xx
Version 3.0 – June 15, 2011
Features, enhancements and bug fixes
- Exception Hunter 3 adds support for applications compiled against .NET 4.
Supported .NET versions
- 1.1
- 2.0
- 3.0
- 3.5
- 4.0
To run Exception Hunter, the .NET 3.5 runtime must be installed.
Supported OS versions
- Windows 7
- Windows Server 2008 R2
- Windows Server 2008
- Windows Vista
- Windows XP SP2 or later
- Windows Server 2003
Supports 32-bit and 64-bit versions of all listed OSs. Windows 2000 is no longer supported.
System Requirements
- 512MB RAM (minimum)
- 100MB free hard disk space
Supported Visual Studio versions
The following versions of Microsoft Visual Studio are required to use the Open with Visual Studio 20xx menu option.
- Visual Studio 2005
- Visual Studio 2008
- Visual Studio 2010
Known Issues
- Type forwarding is not supported.
- Exception Hunter may give excess or incomplete results for .NET 4 applications.
- Exception Hunter may give excess results when analyzing WPF applications.
For more information, see Type forwarding and .NET 4 support in Exception Hunter 3.0.
- When you select Remove all assemblies, the current framework is reset to .NET 2.0.
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Exception Hunter
- Log files
- Type forwarding, .NET 4 and WPF support in Exception Hunter 3.0
- Viewing methods that throw a particular type of exception
- Creating an assembly for an ASP .NET 2.0 web application (version 1)
- Method analysis causing "application configuration is incorrect" errors
all products
- Some Red Gate products identified as containing a trojan by Anti-Virus software
- Activation may fail with Unknown Error -1
- Product uses web help although a CHM file is available locally
- Argument exception resulting from missing environment variable
- Check for updates may fail when used through proxies
- 'Unidentified Publisher' error when repairing or uninstalling
- Licensing activates product as standard edition
- Moving Red Gate software products to another machine
- Red Gate tools log locations
- The application UI opening slowly when there is no internet access
Exception Hunter
- Activating your products
- Activating your products
- Getting help offline
- Exception Hunter release notes - version 2.xx
- Exception Hunter release notes - version 3.xx
all products
- Red Gate product acknowledgements
- Activating your products
- Activating your products
- Red Gate bundle history
- Check for updates
- Troubleshooting Check for Updates errors
- Current versions
- Deactivating your products
- Installing Red Gate products from the .msi file
- Requesting additional activations
- Serial numbers for bundles
- Reactivating using a different serial number
- Extending your trial
- Finding your serial numbers
- Moving a serial number from one computer to another
- No response received for manual activation
- Licensing and activation resources
- Licensing and activation resources
- Troubleshooting licensing and activation errors
- Licensing and activation FAQs
- Red Gate tools log file locations
- Download old versions of products
- Download product prerequisites & utilities
- Support & upgrades
- Upgrading your software
- Upgrading FAQs

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