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There is a recommended practice where you catch the minimum exception you can: SocketException instead of Exception for example, but that code's silly.
It's possible that he planned to come back and do something different for the SocketException later and never got round to it, but if that's the case the author still needs a thump upside the head... 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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OriginalGriff wrote: It's possible that he planned to come back and do something different for the SocketException later and never got round to it
That was my thought exactly. 
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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The only thing I can think of is that he didn't know that both were the same and just wanted to keep a separation of concern?
New version: WinHeist Version 2.1.1 new web site.
I know the voices in my head are not real but damn they come up with some good ideas!
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Typically you would want to handle a socket exception different than a general exception. Maybe an oversight in this case that both are handled the same way. Might have been put in there for debugging.
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Well, that could have been more interesting, e.g.
catch (SocketException e)
{
Console.WriteLine(e.Message);
conn.connecting = false;
throw;
}
catch (Exception e)
{
Console.WriteLine(e.Message);
conn.connecting = false;
}
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Just useful while debugging; you can have a breakpoint in one block but not the other; but it should be removed afterward.
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Looks like code I would have written except that I would have put a TODO in the SocketException handler with a note to do something more useful than what the generic exception handler does. Or the other way around. Either way, the intention would be to come back later and fix it.
Marc
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I'd lay odds that the original programmer thought he may 'legitimately' get a socketException error, so catches it and handles it appropriately. (though in this case, just logs it)
But then wants to catch and log any other exception, just in case.
So the fault is in the fact that in the 1st catch he should probably have been putting some relevant code (I dunno - pop up a message to the user or something) as it is an 'expected' exception.
As I think Marc said - looks like a TODO is missing!
PooperPig - Coming Soon
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I read about the "GWX"-Advertising (Get Windows 10) "Update" for Windows 7/8 before I confirmed installing updates - so I selected the "ignore" option for that one.
Guess what - now I have that friggin thing in my taskbar anyway, probably because there was another such "update" for Windows 7.
Alright - the FAQ says:
Q: Can I turn off the notifications?
A: Yes. Click “Customize” in the System Tray and turn off the Get Windows 10 app notifications in the menu that comes up.
So I turn it off.
After next reboot: It's there again.
What the ??? 
If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't. — Lyall Watson
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Microsoft has really become somthin.
What that somthin' really is I'm afraid is yet to be seen. 
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Go in Control Panel, Windows Update...click on 'Installed Updates' link at the bottom left of the window. In the list of Installed Updates, find KB 3035583, right click it and choose 'Uninstall' and poof!, it's gone 
...after this, do a new check for Updates, you will find it in the list again, right click it and choose 'Hide Update'...that way it won't come up for install again.
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I did that then, just wanted to vent a bit  But thank you for your intention to help
If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't. — Lyall Watson
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Install a real OS.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't. — Lyall Watson
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Just got a notice about Skype's new agreement becoming the standard Microsoft Service Agreement[^] and stupidly decided to read it.
I noticed the following:
2. Your Content. Many of our Services allow you to store or share Your Content or receive material from others. We don’t claim ownership of Your Content. Your Content remains Your Content and you are responsible for it.
a. [...]
b. To the extent necessary [...] to improve Microsoft products and services, you grant to Microsoft a worldwide and royalty-free intellectual property license to use Your Content, [...].
I have removed sections that list additional uses or rights and provide examples as they obfuscate one of the many rights granted to Microsoft.
Please oh please correct me if I am wrong, but I read this that if I use Onedrive or outlook or 365 online and have some IP of an idea such that it is stored on a Microsoft service, Microsoft can use the idea royalty free to "improve their product"? 
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Member 3717204 wrote: if I use Onedrive or outlook or 365 online
Why would you do that? Are you a noob?
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I said IF. I use none of them, I posted for others benefit.
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I'm using Outlook for 17 years now, and I think everyone not using it must be a noob.
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It's effectively a standard term in their service agreement to protect their ass, and this type of agreement is probably in a lot of products on the web that you use.
Could be related to Cortana, it searches in several places for information and even uses your emails in order to provide information such as events, order delivery dates, etc.
Agreements such as this, in a sane court of law, won't affect your rights of IP, not sure how crazy the law system is over where ever you are, but over here in the UK MS wouldn't get away with pulling a stunt ripping off IP from its users. ( I would hope, at least, the system is stupid but sane against its own stupidity)
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...when I could cheerfully destroy you.
A lappie (not mine) running windows 8.1 - it won't boot. Starts immediately loading windows and then blank screen with occasional flashes of a wait cursor.
Ok - Safe mode. Press F8. No, Safe Mode is selected when it's powered up. Fine.
Recovery disk. No, Bios is set not to boot from DVD. Fine.
Bios. No, Win8 uses hybrid boot mode and the only way into the bios is...once win8 is powered up. 
And my friend with a Win8 lappie has buggered off to play at living in a plastic box in a field for the weekend...
OK: I'll make a Win7 bootable USB...Oh, Win7 won't let me...
It's going to be a long day.
Wonder what happens if I try to boot without an HDD in the thing...hmmm...where's that hammer...
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Try giving it the boot 
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It has Win8.1
If it was mine, it would have got the boot a while ago... 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Try booting from the recovery media that your "friend" was wise and foresighted enough to create while the lappie was working.
I'm already wearing my coat
Phil
The opinions expressed in this post are not necessarily those of the author, especially if you find them impolite, inaccurate or inflammatory.
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I would. If I could get into the bios to tell it to boot from it...but the HDD has a valid boot partition, so the UEFI is auto booting Win 8 rather than looking at the DVD drive.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Taking the HDD out got me into the BIOS. Yay!
Swap a few devices in the boot list...and off we go!
Or rather we would, but it doesn't recognise the DVD as bootable 
I'm getting a bad feeling here...
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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