I've caught an exception!! Now what?

Question

I\'ve started using try-catch blocks (a bit late, I know!), but now I\'m not sure what to do with the exception once I\'ve caught it. What should I do?

Answer 1

It depends on your business logic, but you may want to do one or more of the following.

• Rollback your transaction
• Log the error
• Alert any user of the application
• Retry the operation
• Rethrow the exception

You may also wish to check if the exception is of a type you can handle before one of the above.

A good article on VB.NET exception handling is Exception Handling in VB.NET by Rajesh VS.