You want to be able to clearly distinguish which of your objects threw an exception, to aid in tracking down problems.
You
should rethrow the exception in the catch
clause
in which the original exception was handled. The
throw
keyword is used, followed by a semicolon, to
rethrow an exception:
try
{
Console.WriteLine("In inner try");
int z2 = 9999999;
checked{z2 *= 999999999;}
}
catch(DivideByZeroException dbze)
{
Console.WriteLine(@"A divide by zero exception occurred. " +
"Error message == " + dbze.Message);
throw;
}
Rethrowing a caught exception is useful to inform clients of your
code that an error has occurred. Consider the case in which a client
application contained the CatchReThrownException
method and the ReThrowException
method was
contained in a separate server application that existed somewhere on
the network. When the client application called the
ReThrowException
method and an error occurred, the
server application could handle the exception and continue about its
business. However, if this exception forced the server application to
abort, it should rethrow the exception so that the client application
knows what happened and can deal with the same exception in a
graceful manner.