Error Handling in C#
Understanding and making use of exceptions is crucial to creating readable and understandable code that responds correctly to runtime errors. This course will teach you how to handle errors in your C# code in a type-safe, readable, and structured way.
What you'll learn
Missing or incorrectly implemented error handling code can lead to data corruption, unnecessary crashes, annoyed end-users, out-of-hours support calls, and hard to maintain code. In this course, Error Handling in C#, you’ll learn to correctly handle runtime errors in your C# applications. First, you’ll explore what exceptions are and why we use them. Next, you’ll discover how to respond to errors that occur in your applications at runtime. Finally, you’ll learn how to throw exceptions in your own code and even how to define your own custom exception classes. When you’re finished with this course, you’ll have the skills and knowledge of C# exception handling needed to handle runtime errors in your C# applications.
Table of contents
- Introduction 2m
- Throwing Exceptions from Expressions 4m
- Catching Different Exception Types with Multiple Catch Blocks 3m
- Understanding the Finally Block 1m
- Rethrowing Exceptions and Preserving the Stack Trace 3m
- Catching and Wrapping Exceptions 3m
- Filtering Catch Blocks with Exception Filters 3m
- Global Unhandled Exception Handling 3m
- Summary 1m
About the author
With over 15 years of experience in both frontend and backend software development, Jason Roberts is a freelance developer, trainer, and author. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in computing, is the author of several books, and writes at his blog DontCodeTired.com. Jason is an open source contributor and in addition to enterprise software development, he has designed and developed Windows Store and Windows Phone apps.