Using Try Catch

[sbalak]

I am writing code in C# and I wanted a basic solution:
In Try / Catch block, I want to get a general Exception. So, I write
code as:

try
{
// do something
}
catch (SomethingException ex)
{
// handle ex
}
catch (Exception ex)
{
throw;
}

In the above code, can I write

try
{
}
catch
{
throw;
}

instead of

try
{
}
catch (Exception ex)
{
throw;
}

Please suggest.

Thanks in advance
Santhosh

 

[Lenard Gunda]

Hi,

If you do not need the exception object itself, you can just specify the
type, so you will not get warnings about unused variables:

catch ( ApplicationException )
{
}
catch ( Exception )
{
}

And yes, you can write a generic catch without arguments, that will
catch everything throwed. Although I think that practice is not
recommended, it will work just fine.

However, if you want to write

try
{
}
catch (SomeException)
{
}
catch
{
throw;
}

You can safely omit the last block, if you only rethrow the exception,
and do not do anything else inside it. If no suitable handler is found,
it will get "rethrown" anyway.


-Lenard

 

[Michael Nemtsev]

Hello sbalak,

I recomend u to read "Exception Management (http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnbda/html/exceptdotnet.asp)"
article. There is everything u should know

s> I am writing code in C# and I wanted a basic solution:
s> In Try / Catch block, I want to get a general Exception. So, I write
s> code as:
s> Please suggest.
s> Thanks in advance
s> Santhosh

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