C# 5.0 Unleashed

Causes of Exceptions

Different situations give rise to exceptions:

Code defects, such as forgetting null checks causing NullReferenceExceptions or passing invalid arguments to some method that signals the defect using an ArgumentException or variation thereof.

Runtime disasters that prevent the CLR’s execution engine from continuing execution; for example, due to insufficient memory (OutOfMemoryException) or a stack overflow.

Error conditions in ...