Debug.Assert vs Exception Throwing

Question

I\'ve read plenty of articles (and a couple of other similar questions that were posted on StackOverflow) about how and when to use assertions, and I understood the

Answer 1

Suppose you are a member of a fairly large team and there are several people all working on the same general code base, including overlapping on classes. You may create a method that is called by several other methods, and to avoid lock contention you do not add a separate lock to it, but rather "assume" it was previously locked by the calling method with a specific lock. Such as, Debug.Assert(RepositoryLock.IsReadLockHeld || RepositoryLock.IsWriteLockHeld); The other developers might overlook a comment that says the calling method must use the lock, but they cannot ignore this.