His example is absolutely horrendous and shows a fundamental lack of knowledge. I would fire him ;-)
On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 4:50 PM, OliE <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > my co-worker and I had an argument about try catchs, so I thought > about asking everyone here since I can't find an answer over my > internets :P > > I found something I find weird in one of his try catch in his code. > Instead of having multiple catch of different error types, he made > this : > > Catch ex As Exception > If ex.Message = "IOException" Then > MsgBox("Communication Error") > Else > MsgBox(ex.Message) 'ex.Message > End If > > I told him no to do so and use multiple catchs like this : > > Catch exIO As IO.IOException > MsgBox("Communication Error") > > Catch ex As Exception > MsgBox(ex.Message) > > But he is sure his method is faster / resource friendly than mine, > while I think comparing strings takes longer than catching directly > the exception. > > So, who's right ? > > Thanks for future anwsers and please excuse my english, my main > language is french :)
