Is “Dying is Awesome” preferred?

Question

Recently I attended Jeffrey Richter\'s training courses about .NET. He mentions one strategy of coding \"Dying is awesome\". That is, don\'t write \"catch (Exception ex)\" e

Answer 1

Nothing destroys user confidence faster than a stack trace. At a minimum, catch the exception and log as much information as you can. Then provide the user with a friendly message and instructions as to what to do to either work around the issue or report the problem to support.

There is concern here as to continuing in an indeterminate state. If this is a web app, then this is not a problem unless you are overly dependent on session and app state. If this is a windows app, then feel free to exit (after giving the user a chance to save).