Overview of exception handling in C#

Exception handling is a fundamental aspect of writing robust software in C# (and in most programming languages). It is the mechanism that allows you to handle errors and unexpected situations that occur during program execution. When a C# program encounters an error, it throws an exception, which is an object that represents the error.

In C#, there are two types of exceptions: System.Exception and System.ApplicationException. Let’s look at what these are:

• System.Exception is the base class for all exceptions in the .NET Framework
• System.ApplicationException is the base class for all application-specific exceptions

try-catch

A try-catch block is used to catch and handle exceptions in C#. The try block contains the code that might throw an exception, and the catch block contains the code that handles the exception. The catch block takes an exception object as a parameter, which provides information about the exception...