Archive for April 29th, 2008
Two (useless but potentially) interesting tid-bits
Try-Catch-Finally
A try-catch-finally is converted into IL by the C# compiler as a try-catch inside the try block of another try-finally. This allows for finally block to execute even when exceptions are raised in the catch block. Use ildasm and check it out yourself!
throw football;
Though you cannot throw an arbitrary managed object as “throw myObj” (you’ll get a compilation error), you can modify the generated IL to do so. However your catch block will actually receive a RuntimeWrappedException in these scenarios. Why is this allowed? Well, unlike C#, it is legal to throw arbitrary objects in managed C++ and in those cases a RuntimeWrappedException is thrown too.
