How to Get Necessary Information from the Exception in C# ?

There are times when you want to get the necessary information from the exception to identify the error better in C# . The Exception class contains various properties which can be used to retreive the necessary information from the error.

Some of the properties includes

• Message – The Message property provides the brief description of error.
• Source – The Source property provides information about the application where the exception occurred.
• StackTrace – The StackTrace is one very useful property which provides information to retrace the path that caused the exception.
• InnerException – This property can be used to identify the inner exception (if any).

How to Get Necessary Information from the Exception in C# ?

Below is a sample code snippet demonstrating how to get necessary information from the exception in C#.

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.ComponentModel;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;

namespace AbundantcodeConsole
{ 
    class Program
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            try
            {
                int i = 0, j = 0;
                var ret = i / j;
            }
            catch(DivideByZeroException e)
            {
                Console.WriteLine(e.Message);
                Console.WriteLine(e.Source);
                Console.WriteLine(e.StackTrace);
            }

            Console.ReadLine();
        }
       
    }  
}