The Try - Catch block is very important, and should be used where an error can occur, for example if a file that needs to be read does not exist, you are specifying an invalid path, the current user has not the rights to read and so forth - please read the documentation about System.IO.File.ReadAllText() to see what type of exceptions there are.

In classic VO and Win32 applications, you had to check the return value of an operation, and then eventually ask for more details.

The .NET Framework works differently: it produces an exception, and it is the programmers responsability to treat it correctly.

A sample:

using System.IO
 
function TestException() as void
local cBuffer as string
 
try
 
cBuffer := File.ReadAllText( "c:\temp\This is an  invalid filename : txt" )
 
catch oEx as ArgumentException
 
System.Console.WriteLine( "invalid argument:" + oEx:Message + " in argument " + oEx:ParamName )
 
catch oEx as NotSupportedException
 
System.Console.WriteLine( "invalid path: " + oEx:Message )
 
catch oEx as Exception
 
System.Console.WriteLine( "Error reading the file: " + oEx:Message )
 
end try
 
return

If you don't use the Try - Catch block, your program is terminated with a unspecified error, and you will not be able to understand what really occurred.

Please see also here: Exceptions