private static void TriggerFailureImplementation(ContractFailureKind kind, string displayMessage,
string userMessage, string conditionText, Exception innerException)
{
// If we're here, our intent is to pop up a dialog box (if we can). For developers
// interacting live with a debugger, this is a good experience. For Silverlight
// hosted in Internet Explorer, the assert window is great. If we cannot
// pop up a dialog box, throw an exception (consider a library compiled with
// "Assert On Failure" but used in a process that can't pop up asserts, like an
// NT Service). For the CLR hosted by server apps like SQL or Exchange, we should
// trigger escalation policy.
if (!Environment.UserInteractive)
{
throw new ContractException(kind, displayMessage, userMessage, conditionText, innerException);
}
ContractHelperEx.Fail(displayMessage);
}
private static string GetDisplayMessage(ContractFailureKind failureKind, string userMessage,
string conditionText)
{
// Well-formatted English messages will take one of four forms. A sentence ending in
// either a period or a colon, the condition string, then the message tacked
// on to the end with two spaces in front.
// Note that both the conditionText and userMessage may be null. Also,
// on Silverlight we may not be able to look up a friendly string for the
// error message. Let's leverage Silverlight's default error message there.
var failureMessage = ContractHelperEx.GetFailureMessage(failureKind, conditionText);
// Now add in the user message, if present.
if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(userMessage))
{
return(failureMessage + " " + userMessage);
}
return(failureMessage);
}