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

Although On Error Resume Next is certainly abused more than it's used legitimately, there are places where it would be helpful even in VB.NET.

Consider a program which assigns values to a large number of Excel properties, such as defaults to all printer parameters -- there are a zillion printer parameters in Excel. Later versions of Excel might have properties which earlier versions don't support, and it isn't trivial to figure out which ones are supported in each version. The program should assign a value if the property exists but ignore the property if an older version of Excel is used.

The "right" way to do this with VB.NET would be to determine which printer properties are supported by each version of Excel, read the version in use, and only assign to properties that are implemented in that version. That would require a lot of research and some code, all for little benefit. On Error Resume Next would be a more practical solution.

And, unfortunately, I'm faced with precisely this problem now. The workaround I'm going to try is to write a subroutine which just assigns one value to another, ignoring errors. I'll call this subrouting in place of each assignment statement. Not too terible, but not so great either.