Reinventing the wheel, badly
Patterns and practices • .NET • 11 May 2009
A few years ago, I inherited a VB.NET application in which every method (many of which were four hundred lines long, copied and pasted all over the place, and peppered with vague sounding variable names such as blnRunIf
and blnRunElse
) contained this boilerplate code:
Sub MyMethod()
Try
'
' ** snip ** '
'
Catch ex As Exception
Throw New Exception ("MyClass.MyMethod::" + ex.Message)
End Try
End Sub
Those who do not understand Exception.StackTrace
are doomed to reinvent it, badly.