Error Handling without Exceptions

Question

While searching SO for approaches to error handling related to business rule validation, all I encounter are examples of structured exception handling.

MSDN and many oth

Answer 1

I think you've gotten the wrong impression of the intended message. Here's a great quote I ran across yesterday from the current edition of Visual Studio magazine (Vol 19, No 8).

Either a member fulfills its contract or it throws an excetion. Period. No middle ground. No return codes, no sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't.

Exceptions should be used with care as they are expensive to create and throw--but they are, however, the .NET framework's way of notifying a client (by that I mean any calling component) of an error.