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The Weird and The Wonderful forum is a place to post Coding Horrors, Worst Practices, and the occasional flash of brilliance.

We all come across code that simply boggles the mind. Lazy kludges, embarrassing mistakes, horrid workarounds and developers just not quite getting it. And then somedays we come across - or write - the truly sublime.

Post your Best, your worst, and your most interesting. But please - no programming questions . This forum is purely for amusement and discussions on code snippets. All actual programming questions will be removed.

 
GeneralBlast you Vilmos and Your Clever Cleverness! Pin
Nagy Vilmos23-Oct-13 23:31
professionalNagy Vilmos23-Oct-13 23:31 
GeneralRe: Blast you Vilmos and Your Clever Cleverness! Pin
PIEBALDconsult24-Oct-13 17:42
mvePIEBALDconsult24-Oct-13 17:42 
GeneralLets poll no matter what time of the day PinPopular
virang_2123-Oct-13 13:01
virang_2123-Oct-13 13:01 
GeneralRe: Lets poll no matter what time of the day Pin
Bernhard Hiller23-Oct-13 20:51
Bernhard Hiller23-Oct-13 20:51 
GeneralRe: Lets poll no matter what time of the day Pin
Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter23-Oct-13 21:02
professionalKornfeld Eliyahu Peter23-Oct-13 21:02 
GeneralRe: Lets poll no matter what time of the day Pin
OriginalGriff23-Oct-13 21:25
mveOriginalGriff23-Oct-13 21:25 
GeneralI don't know how to label this pattern. Pin
Andy Brummer23-Oct-13 11:54
sitebuilderAndy Brummer23-Oct-13 11:54 
GeneralRe: I don't know how to label this pattern. Pin
Brisingr Aerowing23-Oct-13 12:54
professionalBrisingr Aerowing23-Oct-13 12:54 
GeneralRe: I don't know how to label this pattern. Pin
Andy Brummer23-Oct-13 15:58
sitebuilderAndy Brummer23-Oct-13 15:58 
GeneralRe: I don't know how to label this pattern. Pin
Freak3023-Oct-13 22:43
Freak3023-Oct-13 22:43 
GeneralCatastrophic Failure! Pin
Brisingr Aerowing18-Oct-13 11:15
professionalBrisingr Aerowing18-Oct-13 11:15 
GeneralRe: Catastrophic Failure! Pin
PIEBALDconsult18-Oct-13 13:27
mvePIEBALDconsult18-Oct-13 13:27 
JokeRe: Catastrophic Failure! Pin
Matt T Heffron18-Oct-13 13:51
professionalMatt T Heffron18-Oct-13 13:51 
GeneralRe: Catastrophic Failure! Pin
PIEBALDconsult18-Oct-13 14:04
mvePIEBALDconsult18-Oct-13 14:04 
GeneralRe: Catastrophic Failure! Pin
Brisingr Aerowing18-Oct-13 14:25
professionalBrisingr Aerowing18-Oct-13 14:25 
GeneralRe: Catastrophic Failure! Pin
vonb22-Oct-13 1:07
vonb22-Oct-13 1:07 
GeneralRe: Catastrophic Failure! Pin
Argonia23-Oct-13 4:49
professionalArgonia23-Oct-13 4:49 
GeneralRe: Catastrophic Failure! Pin
Brisingr Aerowing23-Oct-13 12:55
professionalBrisingr Aerowing23-Oct-13 12:55 
GeneralRe: Catastrophic Failure! Pin
BillW335-Nov-13 4:35
professionalBillW335-Nov-13 4:35 
GeneralRe: Catastrophic Failure! Pin
Sentenryu5-Nov-13 6:12
Sentenryu5-Nov-13 6:12 
GeneralRe: Catastrophic Failure! Pin
BillW335-Nov-13 8:46
professionalBillW335-Nov-13 8:46 
GeneralRe: Catastrophic Failure! Pin
patbob21-Feb-14 5:20
patbob21-Feb-14 5:20 
GeneralWhy bother with any other exception data? The message should suffice. PinPopular
yiangos17-Oct-13 4:16
professionalyiangos17-Oct-13 4:16 
GeneralRe: Why bother with any other exception data? The message should suffice. Pin
Sentenryu18-Oct-13 1:06
Sentenryu18-Oct-13 1:06 
GeneralRe: Why bother with any other exception data? The message should suffice. Pin
yiangos23-Oct-13 6:57
professionalyiangos23-Oct-13 6:57 
Yeah my point exactly. I'd done that same mistake myself, and thankfully it never got past the testing phase: I got that exact error message, and there was no inner exception to see Smile | :) , so after a bit of digging, I simply changed my

C#
throw new Exception(ex.Message);

to

C#
throw;


(Of course, I had an error logging call just before that, otherwise the entire catch block wouldn't make much sense...)

I was just very (unpleasantly) surprised to come across such a basic coding mistake in an online tutorial.
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