Catch multiple exceptions at once?

Question

It is discouraged to simply catch System.Exception. Instead, only the "known" exceptions should be caught.

Now, this sometimes leads to unnecce

Answer 1

So you´re repeating lots of code within every exception-switch? Sounds like extracting a method would be god idea, doesn´t it?

So your code comes down to this:

MyClass instance;
try { instance = ... }
catch(Exception1 e) { Reset(instance); }
catch(Exception2 e) { Reset(instance); }
catch(Exception) { throw; }

void Reset(MyClass instance) { /* reset the state of the instance */ }

I wonder why no-one noticed that code-duplication.

From C#6 you furthermore have the exception-filters as already mentioned by others. So you can modify the code above to this:

try { ... }
catch(Exception e) when(e is Exception1 || e is Exception2)
{ 
    Reset(instance); 
}