Exception Handling Topics (General)

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Handling exceptional conditions makes your code more robust. Certain operations, including object creation and file input/output, are subject to failures that go beyond errors — out-of-memory conditions, for instance, can occur even when your program is running correctly. Anticipating and handling exceptions is a hallmark of solid code.

This article family explains the three exception handling mechanisms supplied by Visual C++.

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General Exception Handling Knowledge

• When to use exceptions

• Exception Handling Topics (MFC)

• Exception Handling Topics (C++) (without MFC)

• Structured exception handling in C

• C++ exception handling syntax

• C++ exception examples

• Catching and deleting exceptions

• Exception handling overhead

More Specialized Topics

• Exceptions in database programming

• Exceptions in OLE programming

• How MFC exception macros changed in MFC version 3.0

• Using both MFC macros and C++ exceptions

• Examining the contents of an MFC exception object

• Freeing objects in an exception handler

• Throwing exceptions from your own functions

• Exceptions in constructors

• Type-safe exception handling

• What happens to unhandled exceptions

• Mixing C and C++ exceptions

• Converting from MFC exception macros to C++ exceptions