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Started by Quat September 14, 2007 11:15 PM

2 comments, last by SiCrane 16 years, 7 months ago

Quat

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September 14, 2007 11:15 PM

Hi, In C# and .NET programming are exceptions the recommended mechanism to handle errors? Does anyone ever return error codes in C#?

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Tubos

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September 15, 2007 12:43 AM

Yes, Exceptions should be used for errors. The MS Design Guidelines say:

Quote:Do not return error codes. Exceptions are the primary means of reporting errors in frameworks.

IMHO, this is a pretty good idea :-)
Constantly checking return codes isn't very convenient.

TheTroll

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September 15, 2007 01:10 AM

Exception handling is the way to go with .Net. Many of the the .Net functions do not return anything so you couldn't return code check them.

theTroll

SiCrane

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September 15, 2007 07:11 AM

The corollary to that statement is that you shouldn't use exception handling for things that aren't errors. Example: Parse() vs. TryParse(). Parse() throws an exception if the input string can't be turned into a object of the appropriate type. TryParse() returns true or false indicating if the conversion succeeded. The former is used when you know that the string should be of the right type and the latter if you're not sure.