Beginning Active Server Pages

Error Handling

Error Handling in ASP pages is also somewhat limited - the only statements available to you are the On Error Resume Next and On Error Goto 0. Also bear in mind that although Err still returns the last error, Error does not return the error text. Use Err.Description instead. An example of error trapping is shown below:

On Error Resume Next
cConn.Execute ("INSERT INTO MyTable (UserName, Password) VALUES ('fred bloggs','mypassword')
If Err Then
    Response.Write "<p><font color=""#FF0000"">An error occured. Error " & Err & " : " & Err.Description & "</font></p>"
End If

This can be particularly useful when you need to trap constraint errors generated by the database.

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