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A Guide to Sexy Exceptions in .NET

Sat, 06 Aug 2011 01:44:28 GMT

Whether you are a rookie developer or a weathered code monkey, you have seen this exception at some point in your work. Chances are, if you are the latter of the two, you have dealt with tracking the issue down and dealing with it. My goal, is to make that better.

The Greatest Exception Handling WTF?!? of All Time

Thu, 28 May 2009 08:00:00 GMT

The Exception object has ONE purpose and ONE purpose only - to represent a runtime error, nothing more. Exceptions should never be used for purposes for which they were not intended -- or you could end up with this monstrosity...

Asp.net Ajax Exception Logging

Tue, 14 Aug 2007 12:31:02 GMT

Error logging system using ASP.NET AJAX

Exceptions vs. Error codes with Services

Tue, 24 Jul 2007 11:01:02 GMT

Brief examination of exceptions vs. error codes

Custom Exceptions for the Real World

Fri, 22 Jun 2007 12:20:40 GMT

Inspired by the newly defined ADD methodologies, I have assemblies a list of real world exceptions. Have some of your own?

Throwing Exceptions in C#

Mon, 09 Apr 2007 21:10:16 GMT

The thirty-fifth part of the C# Fundamentals tutorial completes an investigation of exception handling. In this article we will consider the throwing of exceptions to report error conditions. This includes the use of standard and custom exception types.

Turn on 'all exceptions' and watch the fireworks fly

Sat, 24 Feb 2007 18:01:01 GMT

Most developers run happily along only breaking when an exception in uncaught. Did you know that you can stop and look and every single exception that's thrown? If you do you might be amazed at what'g going on deep inside of your app.

Improve Exception Handling with Reflection and Generics.

Wed, 14 Feb 2007 14:16:01 GMT

Building a better error trap! These techniques can also be applied to Java 5.

Customize errors which are not captured by customErrors in ASP.NET 2.0

Thu, 18 Jan 2007 16:31:01 GMT

In this post, we will talk about customizing error messages thrown by ASPNET when something goes wrong, specially the ones which can't be handled by CustomError tags, like error number 500, etc

Try/Catch annoyances

Mon, 15 Jan 2007 22:34:52 GMT

A suggestion on how try/catch blocks could be improved for clarity.

Throw New NotImplementedException Code Snippet

Tue, 10 Oct 2006 12:08:02 GMT

The very simple code snippet for generating throw new NotImplementedException(); code and why it is better than returning some default value.

throw; vs. throw ex; Here's the difference!

Fri, 29 Sep 2006 17:01:01 GMT

The difference is that throw; preserves the original stack trace and throw ex; truncates the stack trace below the method in which the throw ex; call is located.

If it takes forever to start your app with the debugger, check for thr

Mon, 21 Aug 2006 11:01:01 GMT

There are quite of a few things that are just laws of Object-Oriented development, and one of those is that exceptions should be avoided. If you can prevent an exception from being thrown, do it.

The simplest error reporting in ASP.NET

Mon, 24 Jul 2006 11:01:01 GMT

In ASP.NET 2.0 I'll show you how to get notified by e-mail when an unexpected error occurs - ONLY by editing the web.config. No C#/VB.NET code needed!

Divide by Zero

Fri, 21 Jul 2006 18:31:01 GMT

float/double values do not cause a divideByZero exception, they set the result to '+Infinity'. Why is this?

Choosing the Right Type of Exception to Throw

Sun, 09 Jul 2006 22:31:01 GMT

After you have decided when you need to throw exceptions, the next step is to pick the right type of exception to throw. This section provides those guidelines.