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Exception Handling - Do's and Dont's

Thu, 08 May 2008 01:16:02 GMT

Exceptions provide a consistent mechanism for identifying and responding to error conditions. Effective exception handling will make code more robust and easier to debug. Exceptions are a tremendous debugging aid because they help answer...

Short n' sweet on throwing exceptions

Fri, 30 Nov 2007 23:21:25 GMT

All those preaching what is best, here is an explanation so you can figure out the best for you

Why throw; is not allways the best way to rethrow exceptions

Fri, 30 Nov 2007 21:01:02 GMT

This blog post explains why the standard throw; approach of rethrowing exceptions is not the best in case you care of the full stack trace information

Re-throwing an exception in .NET; the right way.

Fri, 30 Nov 2007 00:46:02 GMT

This is one of those "Yeah I've always seen people use it differently but I don't know why!" questions. Re-throwing exceptions can be misused, although it may not cause any harm to your application - there are multiple ways of re-throwing an exception, most likely for the purpose of bubbling it up to a higher level. Note to Java developers: It is different in your world.

Exception Handling Techniques in C# 2.0

Wed, 07 Nov 2007 04:31:01 GMT

Believe me handling exception is one of the toughest things to do for a programmer. It taking your wife for shopping to a very expensive place and allowing her to choose what she wants to buy. :-) Exception handling techniques explained in a best possible way.

.Net: Passing user data with Exception back to the caller method

Tue, 25 Sep 2007 06:31:01 GMT

A simple way of passing any user data in the Exception back to the caller method.

Reporting Exceptions through E-Mail

Thu, 20 Sep 2007 14:01:02 GMT

One of the terrible things we as developers have to deal with is unhandled exceptions, we all have them good and bad developers. The problem is that no matter how well thought out an application may be we will always have holes that we never anticipated. Unfortunately one day an end user will find it and our application will ungracefully blow up. This article is a simple error reporting routine to e-mail exception details.

String.IsNullOrEmpty can lead to runtime Null exceptions!

Tue, 19 Jun 2007 15:31:01 GMT

The author shows a flaw in String.IsNullOrEmpty of the .NET 2.0. Microsoft replies that this bug won't be fixed until Orcas. (see bug report at: http://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/ViewFeedback.aspx?FeedbackID=113102 )

C# Exception Handling

Thu, 29 Mar 2007 13:33:48 GMT

The thirty-fourth part of the C# Fundamentals tutorial begins a review of exception handling. When an unexpected event occurs, unhandled exceptions cause a program to exit abnormally. Correct handling permits the graceful recovery from an error condition.

Throw vs Throw ex

Wed, 27 Dec 2006 10:10:03 GMT

A common mistake a lot of new .Net developers do is using Throw ex instead of just Throw. The difference between Throw ex and Throw is very simple but can cause major headaches when it comes to maintenance. If you use Throw ex it overwrites the stack trace this makes it very hard to find the original line of the thrown exception as you can see in the example I have provided.

More on best practices for exception handling

Mon, 04 Sep 2006 03:31:02 GMT

Bill Wagner (author of "Effective C#"), adds his smart thoughts to Scott Hansleman's post on best practices for exception handling.