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

To take an example from the Java world where it's OK to ignore an exception:

String foo="foobar";
byte[] foobytes;

try
{
    foobytes=foo.getBytes("UTF-8");
}
catch (UnsupportedEncodingException uee)
{
    // This is guaranteed by the Java Language Specification not to occur, 
    // since every Java implementation is required to support UTF-8.
}

That said, even in situations like this, I'll often instead use

...
catch (UnsupportedEncodingException uee)
{
    // This is guaranteed by the Java Language Specification not to occur, 
    // since every Java implementation is required to support UTF-8.
    uee.printStackTrace();
}

If the virtual machine is going to be mad/spec-breaking, there's little I can do about it, but with the stack trace, I at least get to notice when it started its descent into madness...