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

I don't think you need to catch everything at the point of infraction. You can bubble up your exceptions, and then use the StackTrace to figure out where the point of infraction actually occurred.

Also, if you need to have a try catch block, the best approach I've heard is to isolate it in a method, as to not clutter the code with huge try catch blocks. Also, make as few statements as possible in the try statement.

Of course, just to reiterate, bubbling up your exceptions to the top and logging the stacktrace is a better approach than nesting try-catch-log-throw blocks all throughout your code.