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Cyrus explains some error reporting code in the current beta of VisualStudio - basically, VS is either going to throw a "recoverable Watson" at you when an exception occurs, or queue them up for later reporting. The idea is to have more information sent back to the team in Redmond. I'd be curious to know how this works out, for a very simple reason - in my experience, people - users and developers both - never read the text of the error messages that come up. They tend to hit <return> and move along. It looks like the default for this is going to be "send the information to MS". It will be interesting to see how that works for them.
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