Question

I am wondering can try..catch force execution to go into the catch and run code in there?

here example code:

try {
    if (AnyConditionTrue) {
      // run some code
    }
    else {
      // go catch
    }
} catch (Exception) {
    // run some code here...
}

Answer 1

Rather than throwing an Exception in the else, I would recommend extracting the code from your catch into a method and call that from your else

try
{
    if (AnyConditionTrue)
    {
        MethodWhenTrue();
    }
    else
    {
        HandleError();
    }
}
catch(Exception ex)
{
    HandleError();
}