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Don't catch what you can't handle
One of the cardinal rules of C++ exception handling is “don’t catch what you can’t handle”. Of course there are always, er, exceptions to the rule, but the basic principle always holds. The consequences of violating the rule are less severe in the .NET world, but even there it’s a good rule of thumb. …