Developing and Implementing Windows®-Based Applications with Visual C#™ .NET and Visual Studio® .NET Exam Cram™ 2 (Exam 70-316)

Handling Exceptions

One of the most fundamental and often most complex tasks of a developer is to design exception-handling procedures to allow an application to recover gracefully from an unexpected or disallowed condition.

The .NET Framework allows exception handling to be performed across languages, across multiple computers, and even across the Component Object Model (COM) and other legacy solutions. Within C#, the most common methods of exception handling involve the try, catch, and finally blocks, in addition to the throw statement.

try, catch, and finally blocks must be consecutive within code. You cannot have any intervening code separating ...