Microsoft has some "best practice" advice to share on how to handle exceptions (a topic I've discussed elsewhere). The Microsoft article is well worth reading ... but there's one piece of advice that ...

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Unhandled exceptions are a bit of a misnomer. In .NET, every exception is handled. By the time you access the specifics of an error in your Try-Catch block, the ...

Exception handling has been used in programming languages for decades to handle run-time errors in applications. However, throwing exceptions is costly in terms of performance, so we should avoid them ...

What is an exception handler? An exception handler is code that stipulates what a program will do when an anomalous or exceptional event occurs and disrupts the normal flow of that program's ...

An attempt was made to execute an illegal instruction. (0xc000001d) occured in the application at location 0xfb592e9/0x3f74ab15/etc. What is an EXCEPTION ILLEGAL ...