6.0 Introduction

This recipe covers the various topics associated with exceptions and error handling. As you will undoubtedly find out, exceptions are prevalent throughout the .NET Framework, and the .NET documentation does a good job of telling which exceptions are thrown where. We encourage you to become as intimately familiar with exceptions and error-handling diagnostics as possible and to put the techniques in this chapter to use as you code, not later. If you do decide to put it off until later, realize that more often than not you will miss some key coverage points for error handling within your application.