Handle Exception Carefully

Handle Exception carefully means I am not going to discuss some rocket science about exception handling but I am going to discuss not to shadow the exception in your program. Not going to discuss more I am starting my example

class Program
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            try
            {
                Program p = new Program();
                p.MethodA();
            }
            catch (Exception ex)
            {
                Console.WriteLine(ex.Message);
                Console.WriteLine(ex.StackTrace);
            }
            Console.ReadLine();
        }

        public void MethodA()
        {
            try
            {
                MethodB();
            }
            catch (Exception ex)
            {
                throw ex;
            }
        }

        public void MethodB()
        {
            try
            {
                MethodC();
            }
            catch (Exception ex)
            {
                throw ex;
            }
        }

        public void MethodC()
        {
            int a = 10;
            int b = 0;
            int c = 0;
            try
            {
                c = a / b;
            }
            catch (Exception ex)
            {
                throw ex;
            }
        }
    }

When execute the program you will get the following output as result. Yes you can able to handle the exception thrown by the method and displayed on the console.
Output

But the actual thing is you hiding the stack trace and each time you throw the exception by writing throw ex you are creating new stack trace. So you are not able to get the actual path from where the exception get thrown.

Now to understand the thing properly, write the program again and now replace throw ex by the throw

class Program
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            try
            {
                Program p = new Program();
                p.MethodA();
            }
            catch (Exception ex)
            {
                Console.WriteLine(ex.Message);
                Console.WriteLine(ex.StackTrace);
            }
            Console.ReadLine();
        }

        public void MethodA()
        {
            try
            {
                MethodB();
            }
            catch
            {
                throw;
            }
        }

        public void MethodB()
        {
            try
            {
                MethodC();
            }
            catch
            {
                throw;
            }
        }

        public void MethodC()
        {
            int a = 10;
            int b = 0;
            int c = 0;
            try
            {
                c = a / b;
            }
            catch
            {
                throw;
            }
        }
    }

When execute the program get the following output
Output

Now as you see when you replace the line there is no new stacktrace get created and you get actual path from where exception get thrown.

Summary
So make use of the throw to get the actual path of the exception rather than using throw ex.

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