Exception Handling in VB.NET

Structured exception handling is a fundamental part of the CLR and provides .Net programmers a great way of managing errors. In addition to CLR exception system, ASP.Net also provides ways of handling errors. When a runtime or design-time error occurs in an application, ASP.Net shows a default error page that gives a brief description of the error along with the line number on which the error occurred.

In this article, I will explain you about Enumeration and Exception Handling in Visual Basic .NET.

Structured exception handling is a fundamental part of the CLR and provides .Net programmers a great way of managing errors. In addition to CLR exception system, ASP.Net also provides ways of handling errors. When a runtime or design-time error occurs in an application, ASP.Net shows a default error page that gives a brief description of the error along with the line number on which the error occurred.

One of the main features of ASP.NET over ASP is it's new error handling features. This article shows you how to implement exception handling in ASP.NET using VB.NET.

VB.NET has introduced possibly the best tool to use for application error trapping: The exception. An exception is an error condition that is raised whenever your application misbehaves or identifies a problem that needs to be dealt with right away. This tutorial requires that you have a basic understanding of VB.NET (or Java) exceptions and that you have used them a few times in your code.

Exception handling is an in built mechanism in .NET framework to detect and handle run time errors. The .NET framework contains lots of standard exceptions. The exceptions are anomalies that occur during the execution of a program. They can be because of user, logic or system errors.