The CLI provides the ability similar to 'finally'. Whereas 'finally' runs whether or not a try block exits normally, the 'fault' block only runs if the 'try' block exits abnormally through an exception. Both finally and fault run prior to other handlers. http://www.microsoft.com/mspress/books/sampchap/5771.aspx Implementation Notes: Only one fault handler per try block should be allowed. A fault handler can appear with a finally handler. When composed with finally, we should probably enforce that fault should appear first and run before finally. I recommend taking over the obsolete keyword failure for this use. Proposed syntax: This should print: