5. The Exception Handling Application Block
I WAS ONCE BROUGHT into a company to help them diagnose an issue they were having with one of their applications that had already been deployed to production. The Web application was redirecting users to the home page for every request. It was causing users a great deal of pain and the company was losing a lot of business. Upon investigation, I observed that the code shown in Listing 5.1 was smattered throughout the application.
Listing 5.1. Bad Example of Exception Handling
Try ... Catch ex As Exception Response.Redirect("welcome.aspx") End Try
Exceptions were being caught and “swallowed” by the application. There was no notification or record of the actual ...
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