Thursday 12 January 2012

Error and Exception Handling

The error handling construct in Visual Studio .NET is known as structured exception handling. The constructs used may be new to Visual Basic users, but should be familiar to users of C++ or Java.
Structured exception handling is straightforward to implement, and the same concepts are applicable to either VB.NET or C#. Throughout this section, example code will be shown in both languages.
VB .NET allows backward compatibility by also providing unstructured exception handling, via the familiar On Error GoTo statement and Err object, although this model is not discussed in this section.