Essential Windows Communication Foundation: For .NET Framework 3.5
by Steve Resnick, Richard Crane, Chris Bowen
10. Exception Handling
THE HARSH REALITY of software development is that even carefully written systems break and unanticipated scenarios occur. It’s the job of a good developer to ensure a balance between creating software that prevents problems and software that handles problems as they arise. Distributed service-based systems are no exception. In fact, service-based systems exacerbate the problem by introducing dependencies such as server availability, network conditions, and service version compatibility.
Exceptions are a critical component of a robust system and can be indicators of a variety of situations. For example, a caller may not have provided correct or complete information to a service, a service may have encountered an issue attempting ...
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