Question

I know try catch have been discussed a lot but I haven’t found a solution to my problem yet.

I’m writing a Silverlight application where every exception should generate a MessageBox that says something like “Sorry of the inconvenience”.

Since I cannot guarantee that my code will be free from exceptions my coworker has instructed me to have a try catch in every method (a couple of hundred) like this:

public void Method1()
{
    try
    {
        ...
    }
    catch (Exception e)
    {
        MessageBox.Show("Something went wrong, we apologize for the inconvenience. \n" + e.Message);
    }
}

public void Method2()
{
    try
    {
        ...
    }
    catch (Exception e)
    {
        MessageBox.Show("Something went wrong, we apologize for the inconvenience. \n" + e.Message);
    }
}

But it seems so excessive. I’ve read that one does not use try catch in this way plus there will be a lot of duplicated code plus the code will be obfuscated and hard to read.

Are there any alternatives like a global try catch I can use?

Answer 1

you can always handle the AppDomain.UnhandledException Event