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C# C# Objects Inheritance Throwing Exceptions

Oscar Ragnerby
Oscar Ragnerby
1,046 Points
Posted by Oscar Ragnerby
Oscar Ragnerby
1,046 Points

I can't figure out this challenge!

I can't understand what I'm doing wrong! I've pasted in code that others marked the answer. But I can't get it working!

Program.cs 
int value = int.Parse(Console.ReadLine());

try
{
    if (value < 0 || value > 20)
    {
        throw new System.Exception();
    }
}
catch(Exception)
{
    Console.WriteLine("Value is out of bounds!");
}

Console.WriteLine(string.Format("You entered {0}",value));

1 Answer

Katie Wood
Katie Wood
19,141 Points

Hi there,

I think this is mostly a result of the challenge being a bit picky - there is code behind the scenes to test that you followed the challenge instructions, and the challenge just tells you to throw the error, not handle it. I got it to work by removing the actual handling of the error, which amounts to removing the try-catch bit:

int value = int.Parse(Console.ReadLine());

if (value < 0 || value > 20)
{
    throw new System.Exception();
}

Console.WriteLine(string.Format("You entered {0}",value));

Hope this helps!

Oscar Ragnerby
Oscar Ragnerby
1,046 Points
Oscar Ragnerby
Oscar Ragnerby
1,046 Points

Thank you very much! Finally, I can move on!

I should spend more time reading the task before writing the code.