Sams Teach Yourself Visual C#® 2010 in 24 Hours

Hour 10. Handling Errors Using Exceptions

What You’ll Learn in This Hour

• Understanding Exceptions

• Using the Standard Exceptions

• Throwing Exceptions

• Handling Exceptions

• Rethrowing Caught Exceptions

• Overflow and Integer Arithmetic

As an application executes, it can encounter any number of possible error conditions. C# handles these error conditions using exceptions, which encapsulate the information about an error in a single class. Exceptions are intended to be used only for failure reporting, so they provide a consistent way to report and respond to those failures. Exceptions are not intended to provide a mechanism to control program flow, reporting success conditions, or as a feedback mechanism. They are for reporting failures ...