Visual Basic® .NET Unleashed

Exception Handling

Exception handling is a new feature in Visual Basic .NET. Exception handlers are intended to ultimately replace the On Error Goto construct. Exception handlers provide a more robust means of communicating and managing errors and have been available in more advanced languages like C++ and Object Pascal for several years now.

All exception classes are subclassed from the System.Exception class. The basic exception class contains information similar to that found in the VB6 Err object. The differences are that there is no global exception object always available—exception objects are created and raised when needed—and in Visual Basic .NET you can subclass and define your own exception classes.

Try...Catch

The Try...Catch block ...