Application #4. Try...Catch...Finally
No matter how carefully you write your code, errors are bound to happen. One sign of a well-written application is graceful handling of such errors. This sample demonstrates the new Try...Catch...Finally exception handling in Visual Basic .NET.
New Concepts
You’re probably accustomed to writing error handlers in your Visual Basic 6 applications, using On Error GoTo. You can still do that in Visual Basic .NET, but this sample application demonstrates a better way.
Visual Basic .NET introduces a new concept to Visual Basic developers: structured exception handling (SEH). An exception is simply an anomaly—an error—in the execution of your application, and in keeping with the concept that everything in the ...
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