Effective C#: 50 Specific Ways to Improve Your C#

6. Miscellaneous

Some items don’t fit convenient categories. But that does not limit their importance. Understanding code access security is important for everyone, as is understanding exception-handling strategies. Other recommendations are constantly changing because C# is a living language, with an active community and an evolving standard. It pays to look forward to these changes and prepare for them; they will impact your future work.

Item 45: Prefer the Strong Exception Guarantee

When you throw an exception, you've introduced a disruptive event into the application. Control flow has been compromised. Expected actions did not occur. Worse, you've left the cleanup operation to the programmer writing the code that eventually ...