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Understanding the .NET Error Handling Classes

An exception occurs when some major error happens within your application. You may have heard the term General Protection Fault (GPF). This is a result of not handling an exception, resulting a fatal crash of your application. However, don't jump to the conclusion that you should start putting exception-handling code everywhere. An exception should be the last step you perform when all else fails. Your error-handling code should be designed well enough so as to avoid an exception altogether. For instance, if you allocate an area of memory to be accessed through a pointer, you should first check to see whether the memory allocation succeeded rather than trying to dereference the pointer and catching ...