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Specific Exceptions using ASP.NET 2.0 and C# .NET
This tutorial will show you how to catch an exception using ASP.NET 2.0 and C#.NET
The .NET Framework offers a number of types that makes catching exceptions easy.
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In this example we will be catching a specific exception when trying to create a directory in the filesystem, so we will need the System.IO namespace. Our code will catch an exception when we try to create a directory that is 248 characters long and should raise the PathTooLongException.
We'll put our code in the btnSubmit_Click() event.
When the btnSubmit_Click() event fires it runs a try block. The try block does two things: it lets exceptions thrown during the try block's execution to be caught by the catch block(s) below and ensures that execution can't leave the try block without running the finally block. In this example, we are specifying that our catch block handles exceptions of the type PathTooLongException.
protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
//on windows-based platforms, paths must be less than 248 characters
txtDir.Text = new string('A', 248); }
protected void btnSubmit_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
try {
Directory.CreateDirectory(MapPath(".") + "\\" + txtDir.Text); } catch (PathTooLongException ex) {
lblStatus.Text += "There was an PathTooLongException when creating the directory";
lblStatus.Text += " in " + MapPath(".") + "\\"; } |
We have one textbox,a Submit button, and a label on the front end for user interaction. The front end .aspx page looks something like this:
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<table width="600" border="0" align="center" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="1" bgcolor="#cccccc">
<tr>
<td width="100" align="right" bgcolor="#eeeeee" class="header1"> Catching an Exception:</td>
<td align="center" bgcolor="#FFFFFF">
Directory:<asp:TextBox ID="txtDir" runat="server"></asp:TextBox>
<br />
<asp:Button ID="btnSubmit" runat="server" Text="Submit" OnClick="btnSubmit_Click" /><br />
<asp:label ID="lblStatus" runat="server"></asp:label></td>
</tr>
</table> |
The flow for the code behind page is as follows.
using System;
using System.Data;
using System.Configuration;
using System.Web;
using System.Web.Security;
using System.Web.UI;
using System.Web.UI.WebControls;
using System.Web.UI.WebControls.WebParts;
using System.Web.UI.HtmlControls;
using System.IO;
public partial class _Default : System.Web.UI.Page
{
protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e) {
//on windows-based platforms, paths must be less than 248 characters
txtDir.Text = new string('A', 248); } protected void btnSubmit_Click(object sender, EventArgs e) {
try {
Directory.CreateDirectory(MapPath(".") + "\\" + txtDir.Text); } catch (PathTooLongException ex) {
lblStatus.Text += "There was an PathTooLongException when creating the directory: ";
lblStatus.Text += " in " + MapPath(".") + "\\"; } } |
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