The alternative to that simple error-handling combo is the Try...Catch, but it's not as simple as wrapping up your code with it.

Normally, you don’t care about first-chance exceptions -- it's only when something becomes a second-chance exception that you start to pay attention. But when you do care about all the exceptions, ...

We show you how to fix Object reference not set to an instance of an object error prompt which you may see in Microsoft Visual Studio.