Best practices: throwing exceptions from properties

Question

When is it appropriate to throw an exception from within a property getter or setter? When is it not appropriate? Why? Links to external documents on the subject would be he

Answer 1

I had this code where I was unsure of which exception to throw.

public Person
{
    public string Name { get; set; }
    public boolean HasPets { get; set; }
}

public void Foo(Person person)
{
    if (person.Name == null) {
        throw new Exception("Name of person is null.");
        // I was unsure of which exception to throw here.
    }

    Console.WriteLine("Name is: " + person.Name);
}

I prevented the model from having the property being null in the first place by forcing it as an argument in the constructor.

public Person
{
    public Person(string name)
    {
        if (name == null) {
            throw new ArgumentNullException(nameof(name));
        }
        Name = name;
    }

    public string Name { get; private set; }
    public boolean HasPets { get; set; }
}

public void Foo(Person person)
{
    Console.WriteLine("Name is: " + person.Name);
}