Enforcing exception handling

[Jeff Stewart]

Does VB.NET provide a mechanism for enforcing exception handling? I've used
other languages that can have "throws ..." clauses added to method
declarations, but I can't find anything like that for VB.

 

[Greg Burns]

See the thread earlier today titled "Exceptions part of function signature"

http://msdn.microsoft.com/vcsharp/team/language/ask/exceptionspecs/default.aspx

Greg

 

[Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]]

Jeff,

Does VB.NET provide a mechanism for enforcing exception handling? I've
used other languages that can have "throws ..." clauses added to method
declarations, but I can't find anything like that for VB.

There is nothing like Java's checked exceptions availabe in .NET, for good
reasons. The article below describes these reasons. Although it's written
for C#, the points apply to VB.NET too:

Why doesn't C# have exception specifications?
<URL:http://msdn.microsoft.com/vcsharp/team/language/ask/exceptionspecs/default.aspx>