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

1. Catching and rethrowing an exception that you cannot handle is nothing more than a waste of processor time. If you can't do anything with or about the exception, ignore it and let the caller respond to it.
2. If you want to log every exception, a global exception handler will do just fine. In .NET, the stack trace is an object; its properties can be inspected like any other. You can write the properties of the stack trace (even in string form) to your log of choice.
3. If you want to ensure that every exception is caught, a global exception handler should do the trick. In point of fact, no application should be without one.
4. Your catch blocks should only catch exceptions that you know that you can gracefully recover from. That is, if you can do something about it, catch it. Otherwise, let the caller worry about it. If no callers can do anything about it, let the global exception handler catch it, and log it.