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

I like to let almost all of my exceptions bubble up to an application handler where they are logged and a generic error message is displayed to the end user. But the caveat here is that there should not be very many exceptions that actually occur. If your application is throwing many exceptions, then there's probably something wrong or something that could have been coded better. For the most part, I try to make sure that my code checks for exceptional cases in advanced because generating exceptions is expensive.

As an aside, outsourcing coding is generally a bad idea. From my experience, usually they are consultants who are only in it for the paycheck and have no stake in the success of the project. Also, you surrender to their -lack of- coding standards (unless you included that in the contract).