CLR Inside Out – Isolated Storage in Silverlight 2

CLR Team February 20, 2009 Feb 20, 2009 02/20/09

  The March installment of the “CLR Inside Out” column in MSDN magazine is now available on line.  This month we have an article from Justin Van Patten on Isolated Storage in Silverligth 2. You can find a list of all “CLR Inside Out” articles here.  As always, please let us know if you ...

CLR Inside Out – Handling Corrupted State Exceptions

CLR Team February 20, 2009 Feb 20, 2009 02/20/09

  As Andrew pointed out in his recent post, the February installment of the “CLR Inside Out” column in MSDN magazine is now available on line.  This month we have an article from Andrew Pardoe on Handling Corrupted State Exceptions.You can find a list of all “CLR Inside Out” articles here.  As ...

Why catch(Exception)/empty catch is bad

CLR Team February 19, 2009 Feb 19, 2009 02/19/09

  You’ve seen the advice before—it’s not a good programming practice to catch System.Exception. Because managed exceptions are hierarchical, catching the top of the hierarchy—e.g., catch(Exception)—is an easy way to make sure that you catch all exceptions.  But do you really want to catch all ...

Catch, Rethrow and Filters – Why you should care?

CLR Team February 5, 2009 Feb 5, 2009 02/5/09

 A very common pattern in the usage of managed exception handling is that of catching an exception, inspecting it's type and rethrowing it once you realize it was not the exception you wanted to handle. Below is such an example (and should be avoided in preference to another approach described further below in the writeup) that uses ...