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Understanding Structured

Exception Handling

T

he point of this chapter is to understand how to handle runtime anomalies in your C# code base

through the use of 

structured exception handling. Not only will you learn about the C# keywords

that allow you to handle such matters (try, catch, throw, finally), but you will also come to under-

stand the distinction between application-level and system-level exceptions and learn the role of

the System.Exception base class. This discussion will also provide a lead-in to the topic of building

custom exceptions, as well as how to leverage the exception-centric debugging tools of Visual

Studio 2008.