How Can I Force Execution to the Catch Block?

Question

I am wondering can try..catch force execution to go into the catch and run code in there?

here example code:

try {
    if (         


        

Answer 1

Slight resurrection, but I wanted to add both a sample (primarily like others) and a use case.

public int GetValueNum(string name)
    {
        int _ret = 0;

        try
        {
            Control c = (extendedControls.Single(s => s.ValueName == name) as Control);

            if (c.GetType() == typeof(ExtendedNumericUpDown))
                _ret = (int)((ExtendedNumericUpDown)c).Value;

            else
                throw new Exception();
        }

        catch
        {
            throw new InvalidCastException(String.Format("Invalid cast fetching .Value value for {0}.\nExtendedControllerListener.GetValueNum()", name));
        }

        return _ret;
    }

In my case, I have custom controls - a handful of controls that use a base Windows.Forms control, but add two bools and a string for tracking, and also automatically get registered to a Singleton List so they can be properly fetched without drilling down through control containers (it's a tabbed form).

In this case, I'm creating some methods to easily get values (.Value, .Text, .Checked, .Enabled) by a name string. In the case of .Value, not all Control objects have it. If the extended control is not of type ExtendedNumericUpDown, it IS an InvalidCastException as the method should not be called against that type of control. This isn't flow, but the prescribed usage of invalid cast. Since Control doesn't naturally have a .Value property, Visual Studio won't let me just force an attempt and fail after.