.NET Find Eaten Exceptions

Question

I am using .NET 4.0 with VS2010. In my current application (not written by me) I found that there are several codes, such as

Try
    ' do something '
Catch e As Exception
    ' do nothing about the exception. no logging and no re-throw... =o=!!! '
End Try

My question is how to find such an “eaten up” exception throughout the application.

Thank!

Edit: Sorry, I have to indicate that the Catch block is not always empty. It can sometimes be Return False, Return Nothing, Return, Return 0, Return ""...

Answer 1

Launch FxCop through related assemblies. Look for violations of CA1031 rule .

Alternatively, you can use this regular expression in the source code:

catch:b*\([^)]*\):b*\{:b*\}

Answer 2

ReSharper ( ).

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http://www.jetbrains.com/resharper/

Answer 3

Visual Studio "" > "", "" " ". , , , .

Answer 4

@RoadWarrier, FxCop, . FxCop, StyleCop, . resharper, StyleCop Resharper, .

Answer 5

It’s good that you have a source of the application where you can find excluded nutrition. We had to deal with a dll that eats an exception at the production stage, and we use an exception detection tool created using MDbgCore.dll