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

It depends on the framework. Badly implemented frameworks might actually require this. I recall a hack in VB6 where there was no way to determine whether a collection contained an element. The only way was to try to retrieve the element and swallow the error.