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CLR Inside Out – Handling Corrupted State Exceptions

CLR Team February 20, 2009 Feb 20, 2009 02/20/09

  As Andrew pointed out in his recent post, the February installment of the “CLR Inside Out” column in MSDN magazine is now available on line.  This month we have an article from Andrew Pardoe on Handling Corrupted State Exceptions.You can find a list of all “CLR Inside Out” articles here.  As ...

Why catch(Exception)/empty catch is bad

CLR Team February 19, 2009 Feb 19, 2009 02/19/09

  You’ve seen the advice before—it’s not a good programming practice to catch System.Exception. Because managed exceptions are hierarchical, catching the top of the hierarchy—e.g., catch(Exception)—is an easy way to make sure that you catch all exceptions.  But do you really want to catch all ...

Why catch(Exception)/empty catch is bad

CLR Team February 19, 2009 Feb 19, 2009 02/19/09

  You’ve seen the advice before—it’s not a good programming practice to catch System.Exception. Because managed exceptions are hierarchical, catching the top of the hierarchy—e.g., catch(Exception)—is an easy way to make sure that you catch all exceptions.  But do you really want to catch all ...

Catch, Rethrow and Filters – Why you should care?

CLR Team February 5, 2009 Feb 5, 2009 02/5/09

 A very common pattern in the usage of managed exception handling is that of catching an exception, inspecting it's type and rethrowing it once you realize it was not the exception you wanted to handle. Below is such an example (and should be avoided in preference to another approach described further below in the writeup) that uses ...

Catch, Rethrow and Filters – Why you should care?

CLR Team February 5, 2009 Feb 5, 2009 02/5/09

 A very common pattern in the usage of managed exception handling is that of catching an exception, inspecting it's type and rethrowing it once you realize it was not the exception you wanted to handle. Below is such an example (and should be avoided in preference to another approach described further below in the writeup) that uses ...

Catch, Rethrow and Filters – Why you should care?

CLR Team February 5, 2009 Feb 5, 2009 02/5/09

 A very common pattern in the usage of managed exception handling is that of catching an exception, inspecting it's type and rethrowing it once you realize it was not the exception you wanted to handle. Below is such an example (and should be avoided in preference to another approach described further below in the writeup) that uses ...

Understanding the Binder – Part 1

CLR Team January 29, 2009 Jan 29, 2009 01/29/09

 This is an introductory post on the internals of CLR Binder.     What does the Binder do? CLR's Binder is a piece of code that, when given an assembly name, determines where the assembly is and binds to it. So how does the Binder locate assemblies? Let's assume that you are loading an assembly (let’s ...

CLR Inside Out

CLR Team January 11, 2009 Jan 11, 2009 01/11/09

The CLR team has a column in the MSDN magazine called 'CLR Inside Out' where we go in-depth into various aspects of the CLR. The magazine is published monthly, and you can find the list of 'CLR Inside Out' articles over here. If you have topics you'd like to see covered in the article, please let us know! This month, we have an article ...

CLR Inside Out

CLR Team January 11, 2009 Jan 11, 2009 01/11/09

The CLR team has a column in the MSDN magazine called 'CLR Inside Out' where we go in-depth into various aspects of the CLR. The magazine is published monthly, and you can find the list of 'CLR Inside Out' articles over here. If you have topics you'd like to see covered in the article, please let us know! This month, we have an article ...

CLR Inside Out

CLR Team January 11, 2009 Jan 11, 2009 01/11/09

The CLR team has a column in the MSDN magazine called 'CLR Inside Out' where we go in-depth into various aspects of the CLR. The magazine is published monthly, and you can find the list of 'CLR Inside Out' articles over here. If you have topics you'd like to see covered in the article, please let us know! This month, we have an article ...