I agree completely with the spirit of this article. Eric Lippert also provides an interesting view of the varieties of exceptions: http://blogs.msdn.com/ericli

I agree completely with the spirit of this article. Eric Lippert also provides an interesting view of the varieties of exceptions: http://blogs.msdn.com/ericlippert/archive/2008/09/10/vexing-exceptions.aspx http://blogs.msdn.com/ericlippert/archive/2008/09/10/vexing-... If you follow the philosophy of this article and classify exception's as Eric suggests, you should be in pretty good shape.