Question

I have been reading about try/finally on MSDN and found out following code. They say it WILL run the Finally clause but when I run it, it just does not continue and does not run it. What is the problem?

 public class TestTryFinally
    {
        public static void Main()
        {
            int i = 123;
            string s = "Some string";
            object o = s;

            try
            {
                // Invalid conversion; o contains a string not an int
                i = (int)o;
            }

            finally
            {
                Console.Write("i = {0}", i);
            }
        }
    }

Answer 1

Looks fine to me. It will indeed run the finally block. My guess is that the debugger is popping up a dialog box for you, and you’re not managing to force execution to continue.

Run it not under the debugger – that will avoid the debugger getting in the way as it tries to “help” you.