[Disclaimer: I’ve received a free copy of this book for reviewing] A few days ago, I’ve received a copy of the Parallel Programming With MS VS 2010 book. Before delving into the parallel lib, the books starts by presenting several interesting concepts related with parallel/multithreaded programming. From chapter 2 onwards, it’s all about the Parallel […]

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After playing a little bit more with the new Windows 8 preview, I’m a little more used to the new metro UI. I’ve already removed all the default crap (oops, applications…that’s what I meant) and I’ve added shortcuts for most of the apps I use daily. I’m still trying to figure out how to place […]

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I’ve decided to use it in my home machine…couldn’t resist it, you know The first impressions are positive, though I’m not sure if this metro thingy is something I want to use in my day to day work. I would really be glad to end up with slick and fast UI + tools. After all, […]

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Before going on, I need to confess one thing: I’m really frustrated! Why? simple: I was watching the damn build keynote and it stopped…right in the middle of the whole JS app for Windows 8…oh well, it’s probably a sign that it’s time to go back to my blog… As you probably recall, in the […]

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As promised, today I’ll start presenting some interesting guidelines you should follow when working with exceptions. If there’s one guideline you should *always* follow, this is it: don’t catch every exception there is…especially if you’re developing libraries which will be used by other developers. It’s important to realize that whenever you catch an exception, you’re […]

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When someone with lots of experience in Win32 programming starts using .NET, they tend to be shocked with the regular use of exceptions. In fact, they tend to ask why do we define APIs which don’t return error codes and rely heavily on exceptions. Well, it’s a matter of “culture”. Notice that .NET and OO […]

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In one of the previous posts, I’ve mentioned that the CLR allows an instance of any type to be thrown for an exception (notice that this isn’t allowed by the CLS). In practice, this means that you should be able to throw ints or strings from CLR languages which allow you to write non-CLS compliant […]

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As I’ve said before, you’re supposed to throw an exception when a method cannot complete its task in the way it’s supposed to do it. Before throwing an exception, you should consider two things: which type of exception should you throw? What’s the message that  you’re going to pass into the Exception constructor? The first […]

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In the previous post, we’ve started looking at how to use exception in .NET. Even though the CLR allows an instance of any type to be thrown for an exception (more about this in a future post), the truth is that all CLS compliant languages can only catch and throw Exception derived exceptions. That’s why […]

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After a great month of vacations, it’s time to go back to work. And this time, I’ll write a couple of posts about exceptions and exception handing in .NET. In .NET, we should generate an exception when a member (method or property) fails to complete its task correctly. Did you noticed the “fails to complete […]

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