asp.net exceptionhandling notes

1. •Error occurred in execution time
•Abnormal termination of program
• Wrong execution result
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2. Is it a best practice to handle every
error?
 No, it is not best practice to handle every error. It
degrades the performance.
 You should use Error Handling in any of following
situation otherwise try to avoid it.
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If you can able to recover error in the catch block
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To write clean-up code that must execute even if
an exception occur
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To record the exception in event log or sending
email.
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3. Exception Handling
 There are three ways to handle exceptions/errors in
ASP.NET
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1) Try-Catch block.
This is also called Structured
Exception Handling (SEH).
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2) Error Events.
They are page level or application
level error events.
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3) Custom Error Page. This is used for any unhandled
error.
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4. 1) What is try Block?
 Try Block consist of code that might generate error.
 Try Block must be associated with one or more catch
block or by finally block.
 Try Block need not necessarily have a catch Block
associated with it but in that case it must have a finally
Block associate with it.
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5. What is catch Block?
 Catch Block is used to recover from error generated in
try Block.
 In case of multiple catch Block, only the first matching
catch Block is executed.
 When you write multiple catch block you need to
arrange them from specific exception type to more
generic type.
 When no matching catch block are able to handle
exception, the default behavior of web page is to
terminate the processing of the web page.
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6. What is finally Block?
 Finally Block contains the code that always executes, whether
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or not any exception occurs.
When to use finally Block? - You should use finally block to
write cleanup code. i.e. you can write code to close files,
database connections, etc.
Only One finally block is associated with try block.
Finally block must appear after all the catch block.
If there is a transfer control statement such as goto, break or
continue in either try or catch block the transfer happens
only after the code in the finally block is executed.
If you use transfer control statement in finally block, you will
receive compile time error.
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7. Example of Try-Catch-Finally
Try
{
---------------------}
Catch(Exception ex)
{
------------}
Finally
{
---}
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8. System-Defined Exception
 DivideByZero Exception
 NullReference Exception
 IndexOutOfRange Exception
 ArrayTypeMismatch Exception
 Arithmetic Exception
 Exception etc.
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9. Exception class object properties
 Message: Get the error message.
 Source: Set or get the name of the application or object
that causes the exception.
 StackTrace: Get a string representation of the frame on
call stack at the time of current exception thrown.
 TargetSite: Get the current method that throws
exception.
 InnerException: Get the system.exception instance
that causes the current exception.
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10. In general, you will not be able to plan for,
catch and recover from every possible
exception that could occur within a page.
ASP.NET helps by offering two techniques to
handle page-level errors :
 Error Events
 Custom Error Page.
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11. 2)Error Events
They are page level or application level error events: Page_Error()
 Application_Error()
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12. Page_Error()
private void Page_Error(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
Exception ex = Server.GetLastError();
Response.Write("<h1>An error has occurred</h1>");
Response.Write("<h2>" + ex.Message + "</h2>");
Response.Write("<pre>" + ex.StackTrace +
"</pre>");
Context.ClearError();
}
Note: This event fire if the page control is not disposed.
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13. Application_Error()
 The Error event of the Application class is fired when an exception is left
unhandled. The handler is usually found in Global.asax
void Application_Error(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
// Code that runs when an unhandled error occurs
System.Exception ex = Context.Server.GetLastError();
ExceptionLog.MessageDetails(ex);
// Code for handling error on Application level
Response.Write("Handled error from Application <br>");
Server.ClearError();
}
Note: In the code above that ClearError() method should always be called after the exception has
been handled. If the ClearError() has not been cleared, the exception will still show up on the
client's browser.
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14. 3) Custom Error Page
 First change the Application_Error method to the following:
protected void Application_Error(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
System.Exception ex = Context.Server.GetLastError();
ExceptionLog.MessageDetails(ex);
}
 Notice that I have removed the Server.ClearError();
 Then add a customErrors section to your web.config file. This
should be nested within the system.web element
 Add a new custom error page “Error.aspx” into your project to
display a custom Error page, if any unhandled error occurs.
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15. <system.web>
.....
<customErrors mode="On" defaultRedirect="Error.aspx">
//<error statusCode="404" redirect="Error404.aspx" />
</customErrors>
</system.web>
Note: Details of status code can be found at http://httpstatus.es
 To customize the default error page, one will have to change the default
configuration settings of the application.
There are three error modes in which an ASP.Net application can work:
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2.
3.
Off Mode
On Mode
RemoteOnly Mode
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16. When the error attribute is set to "Off", ASP.Net uses
its default error page for both local and remote users
in case of an error.
2. In case of "On" Mode, ASP.Net uses user-defined
custom error page instead of its default error page for
both local and remote users. If a custom error page is
not specified, ASP.Net shows the error page
describing how to enable remote viewing of errors.
3. The Error mode attribute determines whether or not
an ASP.Net error message is displayed. By default, the
mode value is set to "RemoteOnly".
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