Frustratingly, the "on error goto" mechanism in Visual Basic is basically try/catch, except that the error object doesn't give you any kind of stack trace (not

Frustratingly, the "on error goto" mechanism in Visual Basic is basically try/catch, except that the error object doesn't give you any kind of stack trace (not even the procedure or line number where the error occurred) so you have to constantly catch and rethrow errors just to add context information.