C# 4.0 Unleashed

Chapter 23. Exceptions

In This Chapter

• Life Without Exceptions 1167

• Introducing Exceptions 1170

• Exception Handling 1172

• Throwing Exceptions 1188

• Defining Your Own Exception Types 1190

• (In)famous Exception Types 1193

One of the biggest frustrations of development in older styles, such as COM and Win32, was the poor support for error handling. The need to deal with error codes manually, introducing lots of checks for success states, was a grueling experience that not only led to a decrease in productivity but also caused program code to look like spaghetti. And to “improve” on that, developers relied on the ultimate C solution: macros, to deal with control flow for error-handling paths and such.

With the introduction of Structured ...