Idiot proof error when you forget .UseSkiaSharp(true)

[nogginbox]

I'd successfuly used LiveCharts 2 in one project and was copy pasting my code into a new project.

It didn't work and my app crashed with an unhandled naviagtion failed exception that had the message:

{"Catastrophic failure (0x8000FFFF (E_UNEXPECTED))"}

It took me ages (much longer than it should have done) to remember that in my original project I'd also added some code into MauiProgram.cs which was:

.UseSkiaSharp(true)

With this code in, everything worked fine. I was just wondering if there was a way to detect this PEBKAC and help you out with a more intuative exception.

[beto-rodriguez]

This will probably change in a future according to:

dotnet/maui#7258

Sadly, there is not much this library can do if that is a requirement from MAUI. Maybe I could try to hide this, and instead of UseSkiaSharp(true) name the method UseLiveCharts() (internally it would just call UseSkiaSharp(true)) then I will be able to detect and throw with more useful information.

[beto-rodriguez]

I will close this for now since there is not much we can do, but I will surely try to improve this when Maui supports it.