For the counter-argument, read this by Raymond Chen, a developer on the Windows Shell team: http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/archive/2005/01/14/352949.aspx htt

For the counter-argument, read this by Raymond Chen, a developer on the Windows Shell team: http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/archive/2005/01/14/352949.aspx http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/archive/2005/01/14/352949.... (In a nutshell, he argues it's really hard to write exception-safe code)