C# try/catch

In C# programming, exception handling is performed by try/catch statement. The try block in C# is used to place the code that may throw exception. The catch block is used to handled the exception. The catch block must be preceded by try block.

Example

Without try/catch

snippet

using System;
public class ExExample
{
    public static void Main(string[] args)
    {
        int a = 10;
        int b = 0;
        int x = a/b;  
        Console.WriteLine("Rest of the code");
    }
}

Output

Unhandled Exception: System.DivideByZeroException: Attempted to divide by zero.

Example

C# try/catch example

snippet

using System;
public class ExExample
{
    public static void Main(string[] args)
    {
        try
        {
            int a = 10;
            int b = 0;
            int x = a / b;
        }
        catch (Exception e) { Console.WriteLine(e); }

        Console.WriteLine("Rest of the code");
    }
}

Output

System.DivideByZeroException: Attempted to divide by zero. Rest of the code