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On Error to Try Catch

This feature allows the Visual Basic Upgrade Companion to recognize most of the “On Error” patterns and replace the unmanaged error handling by Try ... Catch statements. Some very complex spaghetti-code patterns wouldn’t be recognized by VBUC, but it already recognizes a large amount of cases with different combinations of statement (On Error Goto, Labels, Goto, Resume, Exit Sub/Function, Break, etc.)

Some straightforward examples are shown below.

Example 1 (simple case with block finalizer):

[VB6]

On Error Goto errLabel
<CodeBlock1>
<Exit Sub/Function>
errlabel:
<CodeBlock2>

[C#.NET]

try
{
<CodeBlock1>
<Return>
}
catch
{
<CodeBlock2>
}

Example 2 (simple case with no block finalizer):

[VB6]

On Error Goto errLabel
<CodeBlock1>
<Exit Sub/Function>
errlabel:
<CodeBlock2>

[C#.NET]

try{
<CodeBlock1>
<Return>
}catch{
<CodeBlock2>
}

Example 3 (common case with resume statement):

[VB6]

On Error Goto errLabel
<CodeBlock1>
resumeLabel:
<CodeBlock2>
<Exit Sub/Function>
errlabel:
<CodeBlock3>
Resume resumeLabel

[C#.NET]

try{
<CodeBlock1>
<Return>
}catch{
<CodeBlock3>
}
finally 
{
<CodeBlock2>
}

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