C# 6 and .NET Core 1.0: Modern Cross-Platform Development

Handling exceptions

You've seen several scenarios when errors have occurred. C# calls that an exception being thrown. A best practice is to avoid writing code that will throw an exception whenever possible, but sometimes you can't. In those scenarios, you must catch the exception and handle it.

As you have seen, the default behavior of a console application is to display details about the exception in the console window and then stop running the application.

The default behavior of a Windows desktop application is to display details about the exception in a dialog box and allow the user to choose to either continue or stop running the application.

You can have more control over how you want to handle exceptions using the try-catch statement.

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