Error Handling Guidelines
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Exception Handling Guidelines
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Error Handling Best Practices C#
Collapse the table of content Expand the table of content This documentation is archived and is not being maintained. This documentation is archived and is not being maintained. Best Practices for Exceptions .NET Framework (current version) Other Versions Visual Studio 2010 .NET Framework 4 Silverlight .NET Framework 3.5 .NET Framework 3.0 .NET Framework 2.0 .NET Framework 1.1 A well-designed
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app handles exceptions and errors to prevent app crashes. This article describes best practices for handling and creating exceptions.Handling exceptionsThe following list contains some general guidelines for handling exceptions in your app.Use exception handling code (try/catch blocks) appropriately. You can also programmatically check for a condition that is likely to occur without using exception handling. Programmatic checks. The following example uses an if statement to check whether a connection is closed. If it isn't, the example closes the connection instead of throwing an exception. C#C++VB Copy if (conn.State != ConnectionState.Closed) { conn.Close(); } Exception handling. The following example uses a try/catch block to check the connection and to throw an exception if the connection is not closed. C#C++VB Copy try { conn.Close(); } catch (InvalidOperationException ex) { Console.WriteLine(ex.GetType().FullName); Console.WriteLine(ex.Message); } The method you choose depends on how often you expect the event to occur. Use exception handling if the event doesn't occur very often, that is, if the event is truly exceptional and indicates an error (such as an unexpected end-of-file). When you use exception handling, les
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1 second. .NET Framework Reference Design Guidelines for Class Library Developers Design Guidelines for Class Library Developers Error Raising and javascript error handling best practices Handling Guidelines Error Raising and Handling Guidelines Error Raising and Handling Guidelines Relationship to the Common Type System and the Common Language Specification Naming Guidelines Class Member Usage Guidelines Type Usage Guidelines Guidelines https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/seyhszts(v=vs.110).aspx for Exposing Functionality to COM Error Raising and Handling Guidelines Array Usage Guidelines Operator Overloading Usage Guidelines Guidelines for Implementing Equals and the Equality Operator (==) Guidelines for Casting Types Common Design Patterns Security in Class Libraries Threading Design Guidelines Guidelines for Asynchronous Programming TOC Collapse the table of content Expand the table of content This documentation is archived and is not being maintained. This documentation is archived https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/8ey5ey87(v=vs.71).aspx and is not being maintained. This documentation is archived and is not being maintained. Error Raising and Handling Guidelines .NET Framework 1.1 The following rules outline the guidelines for raising and handling errors: All code paths that result in an exception should provide a method to check for success without throwing an exception. For example, to avoid a FileNotFoundException you can call File.Exists. This might not always be possible, but the goal is that under normal execution no exceptions should be thrown. End Exception class names with the Exception suffix as in the following code example. VB Copy Public Class FileNotFoundException Inherits Exception ' Implementation code goes here. End Class [C#] public class FileNotFoundException : Exception { // Implementation code goes here. } Use the common constructors shown in the following code example when creating exception classes. VB Copy Public Class XxxException Inherits ApplicationException Public Sub New() ' Implementation code goes here. End Sub Public Sub New(message As String) ' Implementation code goes here. End Sub Public Sub New(message As String, inner As Exception) ' Implementation code goes here. End Sub Public Sub New(info As SerializationInfo, context As StreamingContext) ' Implementation code goes here. End Sub End Class [C#] pu
Debug errors 6.3 Exception handling 6.4 Functional return values 7 Detailed error messages 7.1 How to determine if you are vulnerable 7.2 How to protect yourself 8 Logging 8.1 Where to log to? 8.2 Handling 8.3 General https://www.owasp.org/index.php/Error_Handling,_Auditing_and_Logging Debugging 8.4 Forensics evidence 8.5 Attack detection 8.6 Quality of service 8.7 Proof of validity https://bellouti.wordpress.com/2009/08/28/guidelines-for-consistent-exception-and-error-handling/ 8.8 Logging types 9 Noise 9.1 How to protect yourself 10 Cover Tracks 10.1 How to protect yourself 11 False Alarms 11.1 How to protect yourself 11.2 Denial of Service 11.3 How to protect yourself 12 Destruction 12.1 How to protect yourself 13 Audit Trails 13.1 How to determine if you are vulnerable 13.2 How to protect yourself 14 error handling Further Reading 15 Error Handling and Logging Objective Many industries are required by legal and regulatory requirements to be: Auditable – all activities that affect user state or balances are formally tracked Traceable – it’s possible to determine where an activity occurs in all tiers of the application High integrity – logs cannot be overwritten or tampered with by local or remote users Well-written applications will dual-purpose logs and activity traces for audit error handling best and monitoring, and make it easy to track a transaction without excessive effort or access to the system. They should possess the ability to easily track or identify potential fraud or anomalies end-to-end. Environments Affected All. Relevant COBIT Topics DS11 – Manage Data – All sections should be reviewed, but in particular: DS11.4 Source data error handling DS11.8 Data input error handling Description Error handling, debug messages, auditing and logging are different aspects of the same topic: how to track events within an application: Best practices Fail safe – do not fail open Dual purpose logs Audit logs are legally protected – protect them Reports and search logs using a read-only copy or complete replica Error Handling Error handling takes two forms: structured exception handling and functional error checking. Structured exception handling is always preferred as it is easier to cover 100% of code. On the other hand it is very hard to cover 100% of all errors in languages that do not have exceptions, such as PHP 4. Code that covers 100% of errors is extraordinarily verbose and difficult to read, and can contain subtle bugs and errors in the error handling code itself. Motivated attackers like to see error messages as they might leak information that leads to further attacks, or may leak privacy related information. We
to indicate program or method failure in way that it does not affect the method signature and thus, not affecting the overall design of our methods and classes. However, exception handling is maybe the most misunderstood part of OOP as far as I have seen. Some think that exceptions are an evil we must live with; an evil that oblige us to decorate our code with a ‘Try/catch' block whenever we think that an exception may arose. I do think though that exceptions, when used appropriately, can be our ally in making our code more robust and error proof. Exception handling is also a major part of an application design and we should give it the necessary thinking time that it deserves. In the following article, I hopefully try to put some light on good practices in throwing, catching and designing methods to deal with exceptions. What is considered an execution failure? Often, we wrongly consider that we should throw an exception only at exceptional circumstances. The rule actually is "If the method does not what its names suggests (aka what it is supposed to do), it should throw an exception to notify it" (1). A good example is the .NET framework : if you try to open a file for writing but the file is a readonly file, the method will throw an exception because it could not open the file as the method name suggests it. That is said, it is not an unhandled case in terms of the code of the Open method, but it is not a normal execution path neither. Exception handling versus returning error codes This is probably a wide topic but I am going to give the main reasons why we should not use error codes instead or even in conjunction with exceptions (by using an error code to identify the nature of the exception). When using error code, we must usually find a way to also return whatever the method is supposed to return. That either makes us change the signature and use (out) parameters or (worse) embed the error code and the returned type into another class/structure. Another reason, and probably most important one, is that whenever we call a method that returns an error code, we must test it otherwise, we may let the code execute in an unstable state and eventually, propagate the error to upper layers of the application. On the other hand, if we throw an exception, it should be either explicitly caught or the application will simply terminate. This makes the code more robust since even if we forget to catch an exception, we will notice it while testing which is not the case if we use error codes and forget to check returned codes. An exception contains much more information than an error code. It contains the exact location of the en