illustrates a try, catch, and finally block

   

/*
Mastering Visual C# .NET
by Jason Price, Mike Gunderloy

Publisher: Sybex;
ISBN: 0782129110
*/
/*
  Example13_1.cs illustrates a try, catch, and finally block
*/

using System;

public class Example13_1
{

  public static void Main()
  {

    try
    {

      // code that throws an exception
      int zero = 0;
      Console.WriteLine("In try block: attempting division by zero");
      int myInt = 1 / zero;  // throws the exception
      Console.WriteLine("You never see this message!");

    }
    catch
    {

      // code that handles the exception
      Console.WriteLine("In catch block: an exception was thrown");

    }
    finally
    {

      // code that does any cleaning up
      Console.WriteLine("In finally block: do any cleaning up here");

    }

  }

}