Internals of Exceptions

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Examines Windows exception-handling internals: SEH, VEH and VCH, and how C++ and C# (including C# exception filters and CLR instructions) implement exceptions. Covers machine-code details and demonstrates live debugging to show how to catch unusual cases such as StackOverflowException.

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1. 0:00Intro
2. 1:19Agenda
3. 2:22Popular mechanisms
4. 8:16Lower level mechanisms
5. 10:02Finally during exit
6. 11:25Stacktraces in .NET
7. 15:15Catching everything
8. 17:37Uncatchable exceptions in .NET
9. 21:33Exceptions in async
10. 22:47Exceptions in other threads
11. 23:36Constrained Executed Region
12. 25:50Exceptions as seen in WinDBG
13. 33:23IL Metadata
14. 37:51NET two-pass exception system
15. 38:28Catching rules
16. 39:01C# Exception filters
17. 40:00Thread. Abort() behavior
18. 40:30Thread. Abort() internals
19. 41:54AccessViolation trickery
20. 42:52AccessViolation origin
21. 43:42Handling corrupted state in .NET
22. 46:42Summary
23. 49:25References

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