Is there any valid reason to ever ignore a caught exception

Question

Wow, I just got back a huge project in C# from outsourced developers and while going through my code review my analysis tool revealed bunches of what it considered bad stuff

Answer 1

Yes, its acceptable (unavoidable, necessary) in certain circumstances per Maxim's post. That doesnt mean you have to like it. 2106 violations is probably WAY too many and at the least they should have added a comment in the catch block as to why it was ok to swallow this exception.

@Dustin Its bad practice to show any exception details to a public user (stack traces, line numbers, etc). You should probably log the exception and display a generic error.