Theory on error handling?

Question

Most advice concerning error handling boils down to a handful of tips and tricks (see this post for example). These hints are helpful but I think they don\'t answer all question

Answer 1

The book "Framework Design Guidelines: Conventions, Idioms, and Patterns for Reusable .NET Libraries" book by Krzysztof Cwalina and Brad Abrams has some good suggestions on this. See chapter 7 on Exceptions. For example it favours throwing exceptions to returning error codes.

-Krip