Avoiding first chance exception messages when the

Question

The following bit of code catches the EOS Exception

using (var reader = new BinaryReader(httpRequestBodyStream)) {

    try {
        while (true) {
            bodyByteList.Add(reader.ReadByte());
        }
    } catch (EndOfStreamException) { }
}

So why do I still receive first-chance exceptions in my console?

A first chance exception of type 'System.IO.EndOfStreamException' occurred in mscorlib.dll

Is there a way to hide these first chance exception messages?

Answer 1

If you want more control over these messages, you can add a handler:

Friend Sub AddTheHandler()
AddHandler AppDomain.CurrentDomain.FirstChanceException, AddressOf FirstChanceExceptionHandler
End Sub

<Conditional("DEBUG")>
Friend Sub FirstChanceExceptionHandler( source As Object,  e As Runtime.ExceptionServices.FirstChanceExceptionEventArgs)
' Process first chance exception

End Sub

This allows you to silence them as mentioned in other comments, but still makes sure you are able to be aware of them. I find it is good to see how many I am really throwing if I log a message and timestamp to a text file.

Answer 2

Actually if are having many exceptions per second, you would achieve must better performance by checking reader.EndOfStream-value.. Printing out those exception messages is unbelievably slow, and hiding them in visual studio won't speed up anything.

Answer 3

I think the stream is throwing this exception, so your try is scoped to narrow to catch it.

Add a few more try catch combos around the different scopes until you catch it where its actually being thrown, but it appears to be happening either at our outside of your using, since the stream object is not created in the using's scope.