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   From: maxim@storagecraft.com   
      
   > But undocumented exceptions is a much greater evil than wrappers.   
      
   Yes. I tried to imagine the system with no exception/error contracts at all.   
   The result was, in fact, the real world MS's COM, where everybody invent their   
   own HRESULT error codes, and in the end we have the "error 0x80042351" error   
   messages in the apps, often with 100% no ability of understanding what have   
   occured.   
      
   Also not so good.   
      
   --   
   Maxim Shatskih, Windows DDK MVP   
   StorageCraft Corporation   
   maxim@storagecraft.com   
   http://www.storagecraft.com   
      
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