Normally, you don’t care about first-chance exceptions -- it's only when something becomes a second-chance exception that you start to pay attention. But when you do care about all the exceptions, ...

Exceptions are errors that occur at runtime; exception handling is the technique of handling these runtime errors. You would typically use try, catch, and finally blocks (also known as exception ...

The .NET Framework Design Guidelines has this to say about reporting errors: "DO NOT return errors codes. ... "DO report execution failures by throwing exceptions. If a member cannot successfully do ...

While working on a recent project, I found a piece of code that performed resource cleanup. Because it had many diverse calls, it could potentially throw six different exceptions. The original ...