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Error handling, also called exception handling, is a big part of Java, but it’s also one of the more divisive elements. Exception handling allows a developer to ...

Q: Please explain the difference between checked exceptions and runtime exceptions? When would I throw them, and when would I catch them? public static void main ...

While working on a recent project, I found a piece of code that performed resource cleanup. Because it had many diverse calls, it could potentially throw six different exceptions. The original ...

Error handling is important when creating PowerShell scripts. A script that runs correctly once may not run correctly every time. There always seems to be some kind ...

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The structured exception-handling system used by .NET is a highly efficient and powerful way to detect and handle errors. But if you've never dealt with exceptions before—like most Visual Basic ...

Normally, you don’t care about first-chance exceptions -- it's only when something becomes a second-chance exception that you start to pay attention. But when you do care about all the exceptions, ...