Please Don't Use Error Handling
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That's Right. I'm asking you, PLEASE STOP USING ERROR HANDLING! At least until you learn to do it properly that is. I'm currently working on some code that a so-called mid-level developer put together. Everywhere I look in the application there are Try Catch blocks. The problem I have is that it looks something like this:
Try
'do something cool here
Catch ex as exception
Throw New ex
End Try
WHAT??? You mean you bothered wrapping your code in a try catch just to throw the exception in the end as is with no other action? WHY? Don't you realize it's going to throw the exception anyways?
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Sorry for the rant. I wouldn't be nearly as upset with this from a junior developer, but this guy claims to have 3+ years vb.net experience and continuously tells me how efficient his code is.