The .NET Framework Design Guidelines has this to say about reporting errors: "DO NOT return errors codes. ... "DO report execution failures by throwing exceptions. If a member cannot successfully do ...

Asynchronous programming enables you to perform resource-intensive I/O operations without having to block on the main or the executing thread of the application. Though beneficial and seemingly easy ...

WCF (Windows Communication Foundation) is a secure, reliable, and scalable messaging platform for developing services in .Net. This is the second part in the series of articles on WCF best practices.