from reading past threads, this seems to be a common problem,
but i cannot seem to find a fix ...

i've got a WinForms app that i need to be bulletproof.
right now, it is calling a separate assembly to thumbnail videos.
the thumbnails are being generated through a COM interop call to
IExtractImage.
every once in a while, this fails,
and i get an exception that bubbles up and crashes my application.
that top application usually refers to ole32.dll, which i dont refer to in
my solution.

i've got try / catch everywhere.
i've tried catching COMException explicitly, and also generic catch{}.
i dont see any events that i need to catch in.

would it help if i combined everything into 1 assembly?
what else should i do, other than spawn another process?

Thank you,
casey
http://www.brains-N-brawn.com