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08 Sep 2001
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Abstract
ASP.NET uses VB.NET as language of choice and so it inherits all of VB's new features. One of these is exception handling with the System.Exception class. This new feature allows ASP developers to debug at runtime rather than have to build tricky coding to try and catch the different types of errors that they think will happen at runtime. Because ASP.NET uses VB.NET all of these samples can be moved across to a VB.NET application with ease. |
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| Introduction |
Exceptions in ASP.NET
Published 09/08/01
Introduction
ASP.NET uses VB.NET as language of choice and
so it inherits all of VB's new features. One of these is exception handling
with the System.Exception class. This new feature allows ASP developers to
debug at runtime rather than have to build tricky coding to try and catch the
different types of errors that they think will happen at runtime. Because
ASP.NET uses VB.NET all of these samples can be moved across to a VB.NET
application with ease.
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| Exceptions? |
Exceptions?
An exception is an error. Its not a compile time error though, but a runtime error. Runtime errors are ones that don't occur at compile-time because they aren't anticipated to happen. The best way to show you this is through an example. Here, is a simple page that does multiplication. Try it out. You'll see that it can multiply to some degree of accuracy. Now enter in two numbers larger than 2147483647 and -2147483647. You get an exception like the one below.
Exception of type System.OverflowException was thrown.
This happens because integers only can store numbers below 2147483647 and above -2147483647. I converted the numbers to Integers beforehand if you ask why I didn't use a larger storage medium. The same error would have occurred with a Double or Decimal. When the program came across these large numbers it gave up and threw an exception. Here is the code for the page -
<html>
<body>
<script language="vb" runat=server>
Sub multiply(sender as object, e as system.eventargs)
lbl.Text = CInt(num1.Text) * CInt(num2.Text)
End Sub
</script>
<form runat=server>
<asp:textbox id="num1" runat=server ontextchanged="multiply"/> x <asp:textbox id="num2" runat=server ontextchanged="multiply"/> = <asp:button runat=server/><p><asp:label id="lbl" runat=server/>
</form>
</body>
</html> | |
| Handling Exceptions |
Handling these Exceptions
Handling these exceptions doesn't take much, all it needs is a try....catch...finally code block. See here as I overcome this error in the same example, try using realy large numbers and it comes up with -
An error has occurred, your numbers may be too large
Now, that error is a bit more useful to the user. Here is its code for it.
<script language="vb" runat=server>
Sub multiply(sender as object, e as system.eventargs)
Try 'Start try block
lbl.Text = CInt(num1.Text) * CInt(num2.Text) 'Code to try
Catch excp as system.exception 'Catch the exception if the try doesn't work
lbl.Text = "An error has occured, your numbers may be too large" 'Handle the exception
End Try 'End try block
End Sub
</script> |
Now you should be able to see the try block at work. Here is the syntax for it -
| Try
'Code to Try. If try fails you can catch the failure
Catch [var] as [thing to catch]
'Handle the problem here
Finally
'Close off any loose ends
End Try |
The most common thing for the Catch statement (and the only one we'll be using for this article is Catch excep as System.Exception. Now, lets take a closer look at the System.Exception. |
| System.Exception |
System.Exception
The System.Exception class is the generic class where all exceptions go. There are sub-classes for more specific errors like ArgumentException and NotSupportedException. We won't go into all of these in detail, just to let you know that system.exception isn't the only one. We have seen the OverflowException happen and we handled a generic exception. Better code practise dictates that we should handle a more specific error. Here, is where we handle the overflow and the generic with two Catch blocks.
<script language="vb" runat=server>
Sub multiply(sender as object, e as system.eventargs)
Try
lbl.Text = CInt(num1.Text) * CInt(num2.Text)
Catch excp as system.overflowexception 'Catch overflow errors
lbl.Text = "Those numbers are too large"
Catch excp as System.Exception 'Catch any other error
lbl.Text = "An error has occurred"
End Try
End Sub
</script> |
Now, you can get the overflow error and if you want to get the other one, try entering in some letters into one of the text boxes. |
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