A Standard Exception Model
.NET offers a standard exception model. Exception handling is implemented within the CLR and is not specific to a managed language. Each managed language exposes exception handling using language-specific syntax. The standard exception model contributes to language independence, which is an important tenet of .NET. In addition, exceptions raised in one managed language can be caught in a different managed language. Prior to .NET, there were competing models for error handling: Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0, Visual C++, the Win32 Software Development Kit (SDK), Microsoft Foundation Classes (MFC), and Component Object Model (COM) had different exception models. In a component-driven architecture, this diversity contributes ...
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