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