Docfx does not produce useful error messages on exceptions

[firelizzard18]

DocFX Version Used: 2.26.4.0

Template used: default

Steps to Reproduce:

1. Do something that causes an internal exception

Expected Behavior:

Docfx outputs something that can be used to diagnose the issue.

Actual Behavior:

Docfx outputs Exception.Message.

Details

I am trying to build documentation for a large collection of mostly .NETStandard libraries. All of my projects are using the new .csproj format. I am using #1752 (comment) to get docfx working.

Something isn't working. But the error message I get is completely useless:

[17-11-08 09:30:25.755]Error:Error extracting metadata for C:/path/to/A.csproj,C:/path/to/B.csproj,C:/path/to/C.csproj: Index was out of range. Must be non-negative and less than the size of the collection.
Parameter name: index

[firelizzard18]

--logLevel Verbose does not help

[vicancy]

Hey @firelizzard18 Could you provide the test projects for me to take a look?

[firelizzard18]

In this issue I'm simply requesting that a more useful error message be presented in the case of an exception. A stack trace might be informative.

I'm still in the process of determining the root cause of the exception. I have isolated the issue to a single project, but unfortunately I'm not at liberty to share it.

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