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Obscure error message when modifying property accessed by UI on timer thread #9984

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Pdawg-bytes opened this issue Sep 13, 2024 · 0 comments
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area-CoreFramework Issues on fundamental components like UIElement, visibility, etc. bug Something isn't working team-Markup Issue for the Markup team

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Describe the bug

Normally, when you access anything that the UI concerns from another thread, you have to go through the dispatcher. A member in the UWP Community Discord ran into this same problem, but was met with a very undescriptive error message, saying System.Runtime.InteropServices.COMException: "".

Though, I do recall seeing the proper error message before when this happened, but I don't remember how long ago that was.

Steps to reproduce the bug

https://github.com/Pdawg-bytes/WASDK-INPC-COMException-repro/tree/main
Clone this repository and run the app. Take note of the comments in App1/SystemViewModel.cs.

Expected behavior

When you attempt to access something like this, the error message should tell you that you need to use the Dispatcher to dispatch it to the UI thread.

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Here's the undescriptive error message:
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NuGet package version

WinUI 3 - Windows App SDK 1.6.0: 1.6.240829007

Windows version

Windows 11 (22H2): Build 22621

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@Pdawg-bytes Pdawg-bytes added the bug Something isn't working label Sep 13, 2024
@microsoft-github-policy-service microsoft-github-policy-service bot added the needs-triage Issue needs to be triaged by the area owners label Sep 13, 2024
@codendone codendone added area-CoreFramework Issues on fundamental components like UIElement, visibility, etc. team-Markup Issue for the Markup team and removed needs-triage Issue needs to be triaged by the area owners labels Sep 13, 2024
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