What is the best alternative “On Error Resume Next” for C#?

Question

If I put empty catch blocks for my C# code, is it going to be an equivalent for VB.NET\'s \"On Error Resume Next\" statement.

try
{
    C# code;
}

catch(excepti         


        

Answer 1

I've found that VB programmers often littered code with many On Error Resume Next statements out of (bad) habit. My suggestion would be to start with no suppressed exceptions, and see what actually breaks. There may not be as many issues as you think. Conversely, the more regression testing you can do, the better; there may be some edge cases that only work when errors are ignored.

Ultimately, you need to decide on an error handling strategy, whether it is graceful unwinding inside many try/catch blocks, or letting errors percolate to a top-level handler (both strategies have their uses).

If you end up having to suppress some exceptions to meet a deadline, at the very least log those exceptions so that the next developer working on your code doesn't get burnt by an empty try/catch.