Cannot catch exception because its not of class system.exception

[StuckInTheMiddle]

Hi there,

I'm coding ASP.NET with VB and I've been nicely coding away for a few days getting things working and now that they do i thought it prudent to start putting in some error handling.

Rather then use the old 'on error goto' approach i thought that 'try..catch' was the way to go. However, even trying something simple as follows, i get error 'Cannot catch exception because its not of class system.exception'


try
myvar = mvothervar / someothervar
catch ex as exception when myvar = 0
response.write
end

The 'ex' is underlined, with the above error. I dont get this message when starting a new project, i really dont want to have to cut and paste all my code to a new project. Anyone any ideas about whats gone wrong?

 

[mc13]

Since the error is not that ex is not defined do you have it defined else where as another data type?