Jochen Kalmbach's WebLog

Small managed question...

I have a small question…

Will the destructor be called in a managed class if the constructor has thrown an exception?

Here is the example (.NET 1.1; but you can also try this with .NET 2.0):

  namespace MyNamespace {

  __gc class MyTest {
  public:
    MyTest()
    {
      throw new System::ApplicationException(S"Exception in the constructor");
    }
    ~MyTest()
    {
      Console::WriteLine(S"Destructor was called");
    }
  };

}

int _tmain() {
  try
  {
    MyNamespace::MyTest *mt = new MyNamespace::MyTest();
  }
  catch(System::ApplicationException *exp)
  {
  }

} 

By the way: Happy new year!