Benchmark, anyone? (on exception handling techniques)
My new client has some standards in terms of dealing with exceptions. At this point, everything - and I mean everything - is being done in heirarchical try...catch blocks. I'm thinking that using the Page.Error event handler might be a better way. It would indeed allow for much less coding and simplified/centralized exception management. But that's not enough - I'm on the lookout for any articles or documentation benchmarking the differences in execution time between using try...catch or the more robust-feeling event methodology. Web forms would be best, but WinForms benchmarks would suffice too.
Anyone know of anything out there like this? I worked up a sample snippet of code to demonstrate this, but I'd like to get a little more information from MS or any other reputable source.
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