"sm" <sm@discussions.microsoft.com> schrieb:

Exceptions raised in methods called after 'On Error GoTo...' will be handled
too.

Yes.

sm,
In addition to Herfried's comments.

There have been many a thread of the benefits of Try/Catch verses On Error,
if you would like links on these discussions I can find them & post them. I
prefer Try/Catch & Try/Finally

I use Try/Catch when there is something specific that I need to do with the
exception. Otherwise I let my global exception handlers handle the event.
IMHO logging should go in the global exception handler. Too often I've seen
Try/Catch blocks where the exception information is "lost" making it harder
to diagnose problems.

I use Try/Finally blocks significantly more often to ensure that resources
are closed, using the "using" statement in C# simplifies this. We will have
to wait for Whidbey (VS.NET 2005) to get the "Using" statement in VB.NET.

For an unhandled exception:
Depending on the type of application you are creating, .NET has three
different global exception handlers.

For ASP.NET look at:
   System.Web.HttpApplication.Error event
   Normally placed in your Global.asax file.

For console applications look at:
   System.AppDomain.UnhandledException event
   Use AddHandler in your Sub Main.

For Windows Forms look at:
   System.Windows.Forms.Application.ThreadException event
   Use AddHandler in your Sub Main.

It can be beneficial to combine the above global handlers in your app, as
well as wrap your Sub Main in a try catch itself.

There is an article in the June 2004 MSDN Magazine that shows how to
implement the global exception handling in .NET that explains why & when you
use multiple of the above handlers...

http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/04/06/NET/default.aspx

For example: In my Windows Forms apps I would have a handler attached to the
Application.ThreadException event, plus a Try/Catch in my Main. The
Try/Catch in Main only catches exceptions if the constructor of the MainForm
raises an exception, the Application.ThreadException handler will catch all
uncaught exceptions from any form/control event handlers.

Hope this helps
Jay