Visual studio and .NET tip 8:- Get inner most exception

We all know exceptions get propagated from the last caller to the main caller. For instance let’s say from your static void main method you are calling “SomeMethod” and he in turn is calling “SomeMethod1”.

Visual studio and .NET tip 8:- Get inner most exception

We all know exceptions get propagated from the last caller to the main caller.  For instance let’s say from your static void main method you are calling “SomeMethod” and he in turn is calling “SomeMethod1”.
Now let’s say this “SomeMethod1” unfortunately raises error, which is sent to “SomeMethod” and he propagates the same to your main function.



Below is how the code snippet looks like.

static void Main(string[] args)
{

             try
            {
                 SomeMethod();
             }
             catch (Exception ex)
            {
               Console.WriteLine(ex.GetBaseException().Message.ToString());
            }
          
        }

         public static void SomeMethod()
        {
             try
            {
                 SomeMethod1();
             }
             catch (Exception e)
             {
                 throw new Exception("Somemethod",e); ;
            }
        }

         public static void SomeMethod1()
        {
             throw new Exception("Error thrown by somemethod1");
        }


Now if you try to catch the exception in static void main you would get exception message which is raised from “SomeMethod” method as shown in the below figure. As a curios developer you would always like to know the main source of error and not the disguised method.




Thanks to .NET there is nice function in the exception class called as “GetBaseException” as shown in the below code snippet.

Console.WriteLine(ex.GetBaseException().Message.ToString());


Now if there is a error raised by “Somemethod1” you should see the same in your main function as shown in the below image.




You can also see the video for the above tip and trick at  http://youtu.be/j3sQ65GB7OI?hd=1