What's the purpose of throw in Catch Block?

Typically when you define a catch block you probably plan in handling the exception in some way. In some circumstances, handling the exception does not mean "swallowing" it. For example, your catch block may simply wish to log the exception to the event log and not actually deal with the exception. Another possibility for a throw in a catch block is that you wish to refine the exception by wrapping it in another exception. Here is an example: try { XmlDocument dom = new XmlDocument(); dom.Load("SomeNoneExistingFile.xml"); } catch(Exception ex) { throw new ApplicationException("An error occured processing request. Time of exception: " + DateTime.Now.ToString(),ex); }

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denkai22y ago
Typically when you define a catch block you probably plan in handling the exception in some way. In some circumstances, handling the exception does not mean "swallowing" it. For example, your catch block may simply wish to log the exception to the event log and not actually deal with the exception. Another possibility for a throw in a catch block is that you wish to refine the exception by wrapping it in another exception. Here is an example: try { XmlDocument dom = new XmlDocument(); dom.Load("SomeNoneExistingFile.xml"); } catch(Exception ex) { throw new ApplicationException("An error occured processing request. Time of exception: " + DateTime.Now.ToString(),ex); }