Is it OK to throw exceptions from constructors? Some of us may have heard that it is wrong but don’t really remember why. There are lots of philosophical arguments about this question, you may become confused trying to understand what’s the right thing to do. Does it mater if we are developing with C++ or any other .Net language like C#? I am writing this article to shed some light on the “throwing exceptions from constructors” topic. 

Constructors can’t return values, so we pretty much have to throw an exception to indicate that the object couldn’t be constructed. Some of you may grasp that constructors are supposed to handle simple tasks…