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Exceptions and Assertions (re-post)

This is a re-post of Ohad Israeli's one, I found this very useful and included here for my reference.

Many Thanks to Mark Treadwell and Ohad Israeli for sharing the info.

Mark Treadwell has a great post with lots of sources regarding exception management

• MSJ, Matt Pietrek: A Crash Course in Structured Exception Handling
• MSDN Mag, Matt Pietrek: Under the Hood - New Vectored Exception Handling in Windows XP
• Blog, Chris Brumme: The Exception Model
• PAG, MSDN, Exception Management Architecture Guide [article only]
• PAG, MSDN, Exception Management Application Block for .NET [article only]
• Cat Francis, MSDN, Introduction to Exception Handling in Visual Basic .NET [article only]
• Eric Gunnerson, MSDN, Writing Exceptional Code [article only]
• Eric Gunnerson, MSDN, The Well-Tempered Exception [article and code: exception.exe]
• MSDN Library, .NET Framework Class Library, Exception Class
• MSDN Library, .NET Framework SDK, .NET Framework Developer's Guide, Handling and Throwing Exceptions, with the following subsections:
  • Exceptions Overview - Provides an overview of common language runtime exceptions
  • Exception Class - Describes the elements of an exception object
  • Exception Hierarchy - Describes the exceptions that most exceptions derive from
  • Exception Handling Fundamentals - Explains how to handle exceptions using Catch, Throw, and Finally statements
    • Using the Try/Catch Block to Catch Exceptions - Describes how to use the Try/Catch block to handle exceptions
    • Using Specific Exceptions in a Catch Block - Describes how to catch specific exceptions
    • Throwing Exceptions - Describes how to throw exceptions as well as how to catch and then re-throw exceptions
    • Using User-Defined Exceptions - Describes how to create your own exception classes
    • Using User-Filtered Exceptions - Describes how to set up filtered exceptions
    • Using the Finally Block - Explains how to use the Finally statement in an exception block
  • Best Practices for Handling Exceptions - Describes suggested methods for handling exceptions
  • Handling COM Interop Exceptions - Describes how to handle exceptions thrown and caught in unmanaged code
• Jesse Liberty, MSDN Magazine, December 2002, .NET Exceptions: Make the Transition from Traditional Visual Basic Error Handling to the Object-Oriented Model in .NET [article only]
• Wesner Moise, Assert Enhancements [article and code, assert_src.zip]
• Kevin McFarlane, Code Project, Managing Unhandled Exceptions in .NET [article and code]
• Marc Clifton, Code Project, A Treatise on Using Debug and Trace classes, including Exception Handling [article and code, DebugTreatise_src.zip]
• Jason Bock, Creating a Reusable Error Dialog for .NET Applications [article and code]
• Kathleen Dollard, Visual Studio Magazine, Display Dissected Exceptions [article and code]