Exception Handling: A Brief Overview
C#'s exception handling is object-oriented in that the exception generated by the execution engine in response to a special condition is an object that contains information about the corresponding abnormal condition. Any such exception object is either of class System.Exception or a subclass thereof. Typical predefined subclasses, found in the .NET Framework class library, are System.DivideByZeroException, System.InvalidOutOfRangeException, and System.NullReferenceException.
When an exceptional condition is encountered in a function, an exception object is created and thrown in that function. The function can catch (handle) the exception object itself or pass it on.
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