Microsoft® Visual Basic® 2010 Step by Step

Chapter 9. Trapping Errors by Using Structured Error Handling

After completing this chapter, you will be able to:

• Manage run-time errors by using the Try … Catch error handler.

• Create a disc drive error handler that tests specific error conditions by using the Catch statement.

• Write complex error handlers that use the Exception object and the Message property.

• Build nested Try … Catch statements.

• Use error handlers in combination with defensive programming techniques.

• Leave error handlers prematurely by using the Exit Try statement.

In Chapter 8 you learned how to recognize run-time errors in a Microsoft Visual Basic program and how to locate logic errors and other defects in your program code by using the Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 debugging tools. ...