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GeneralRe: Everywhere a single Catch block used catching top Exception all times. Pin
Mohammed Hameed19-Jun-13 23:56
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Mohammed Hameed20-Jun-13 1:11
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Richard Deeming20-Jun-13 1:36
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AnalogNerd24-Jun-13 2:26
AnalogNerd24-Jun-13 2:26 
I am catching the top level exception in a large chunk of my current application. I have two reasons for this, but I'm willing to listen to anyone who thinks this is "wrong" and learn a better development practice if I can:

1. I rely heavily on a third party webservice that is very fickle and unpredictable. I have exception handling in here when making calls to this so I can gracefully handle errors from this application for the user. However, even I as I typed this I realized I should be throwing specific exception and not general ones, so I'll be refactoring that code.

2. In general I prefer to capture exceptions and log them so when my users (these are internal applications) call and say they had a problem I can check the log file to help resolve the issue. WIth CustomErrors on the end user normally can't provide me with much in the way of useful information so I rely on my logs for production troubleshooting.
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Mohammed Hameed24-Jun-13 2:37
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GeneralRelational database reinvented as a flat file... Pin
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jim lahey20-Jun-13 1:57
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GeneralWhy stick to just one database? Pin
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