Exiting an Application on Error

Error handling is always a nightmare for every programmer. Because, testing you application in your development lab and exposing the application to a real-world lies in two extremities. The very reason where everyone go for alpha/beta and finally the RC release. Hey…Hey…I’m not going into core-concepts.

Recently, I’s re-optimizing a 6-month old c#-code (written in .NET 2.0) to .NET 3.5. Re-optimizing the code is a tough task, specially when the code was written by someone else. It deals with studying the code, understanding the logic and also good, if you can preview the test-cases encountered while re-designing.

When digging deep into the logic, I came across code-blocks where, even if you catch an Exception, you can’t continue because that might cause an abnormal exception at some other point. Huh! and I’s forced to kill the application at that point, using one-line code.

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   2: Environment.Exit(1);

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Remember, use this code safely. Use it only when you came across a do-or-die situation. Killing an application unnecessarily is bad way of programming.

Happy Programming.