General Exception Handling Strategy for .NET

Question

I’m used to having try/catch blocks in every method. The reason for this is so that I can catch every exception at the point of infraction and log it. I understand, from my

Answer 1

You can see everything at stack trace - no need to try/catch every method.

Stick to few rules:

1. Use try/catch only if you want to use a custom exception type
2. Define a new exception type only if upper levels needs to know that
3. Try/catch at top level instead of doing that for each method