Suppose there is a .NET application that uses lots of system events and framework methods. I find it hard to manually read the documentation of each event and method to see if they throw exceptions. Is there a VS tool or a third-party application that runs through source code and indicates which events, methods, etc. are not exception handled?
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Reflector has an Analyze command that may be useful for this purpose, but its not going to be as slick and quick as you would probably like
StingyJack
2010-07-02 14:31:31
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Redgate have a tool that does this, called Exception Hunter, though you will possibly drown in a sea of possible exceptions...
Oded
2010-07-02 14:34:45
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The most effective way is if the developer of the library uses the document comments to show what exception can be raised from a given method, but the assumes the developer bothered.
As StingyJack said the most likely way to get this information is to use reflection, this will need to be a recursive search and could tack some time, it probably will not show you any COM or Win32 Exceptions but should help you a lot.
Personally i would just wrap blocks of code in a try block and handle exceptions i know about and have a general catch all if it is that important.
Robert
2010-07-02 14:38:54
Right - there's no point in catching specific exceptions if you can't do anything useful with them
Tim Robinson
2010-07-02 14:55:13