#870 – Where Execution Continues when an Exception Is Caught

When an exception is thrown that you catch in a catch block, the code in the catch block will execute.  Once all of the code in the catch block executes, execution will continue with the first line following the try-catch statement.  (Assuming that your catch block does not itself throw an exception).

            try
            {
                DoSomething();
                Console.WriteLine("In try block, before call that throws exception");
                DoSomethingThatThrowsAnException();
                Console.WriteLine("In try block, after call that throws exception");
                DoSomethingElse();
            }
            catch (FileNotFoundException noFileExc)
            {
                Console.WriteLine("FileNotFoundException");
            }
            catch (ArgumentOutOfRangeException argExc)
            {
                Console.WriteLine("ArgumentOutOfRangeException");
            }
            catch (Exception exc)
            {
                Console.WriteLine("Some other Exception");
            }

            Console.WriteLine("Now I'm continuing after the try-catch statement");

When this code runs, the statements in the try block begin executing.  The second method that we call results an exception, which is caught in the ArgumentOutOfRangeException catch block.  Once that block finishes executing, we continue with the code after the last catch block.