3 important properties of Exception class

Here we will discuss three very important properties of exception class. In any project development exception handling and log in is very crucial part. Log proper message and enough is very important. It will helpful to developer for next step.

Now, question is how we will log proper message about information! We have to extract proper message and information from exception object by setting few properties. Here we will discuss three important properties one by one.

Message property to get message from exception location

Message property will supply message from exception location. We can log this information to know exact message regarding exception. Here is sample code to do same.

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Windows.Forms;
using System.IO;
using PIHelper;
using System.Data.Common;

namespace WindowsForm
{
    public partial class Form1 : Form
    {
        public Form1()
        {
            InitializeComponent();
        }
        private void Form1_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
          
        }
        private void button1_Click_1(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
          // Exception handeling
                try
                {
                    throw new Exception("My created exception");
                }
                catch (Exception ex)
                {
                    MessageBox.Show(ex.Message);
                }
        }
        
    }
} 

Here is sample output:

Stack Trace to detect original location of exception

Stack tracing is very important when one function call to another any exception comes from chain of function calling. For example function A is calling to function B again function B is calling to function C . Now, if C throws exception and we want to detect it from function A then we have to use StackTrace property of Exception class. Here is sample code for example.

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Text;
using System.Windows.Forms;
using System.IO;
using PIHelper;
using System.Data.Common;

namespace WindowsForm
{
    public partial class Form1 : Form
    {
        public Form1()
        {
            InitializeComponent();
        }
        private void Form1_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
          
        }

        private void button1_Click_1(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
          // Exception handeling

            try
            {
                throw new Exception("My created exception");
            }
            catch (Exception ex)
            {
                MessageBox.Show(ex.StackTrace);
            }


        }
        
    }
}

In output screen we are seeing actual location of exception.

Inner exception to get information of original exception object

In conductive function calling scenario if any inner function throws exception it may replace by other exception when it re throws by different catch block.

And if we want to get information about original exception object we have to use InnerException property of Exception class. Here in sample code and implementation.

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Windows.Forms;
using System.IO;
using PIHelper;
using System.Data.Common;

namespace WindowsForm
{
    public partial class Form1 : Form
    {
        public Form1()
        {
            InitializeComponent();
        }
        private void Form1_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
          
        }

        public void MakeException()
        {
            try
            {
                throw new ApplicationException("My created exception");
            }
            catch (Exception mainE)
            {
                throw new Exception("Exception String",mainE);
            }
        }

        private void button1_Click_1(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
          // Exception handeling

            try
            {
                MakeException();
            }
            catch (Exception ex)
            {
MessageBox.Show(ex.InnerException.Message.ToString());
            }
        }
        
    }
} 

Here is sample output.