I wrote about Debug.Fail usage earlier (Debug.Fail). One more usage - in the exception handling routine. You can't throw an exception there because this exception will go to the client and client will be confused. So I recommend not to throw an exception (if e.g. HandleException method obtains null as one of the mandatory arguments) but do something like this:
Debug.Assert (exc == null, "Exception passed to the ExceptionHanlder.HandleException can not be null");
or
if (exc == null)
{Debug.Fail("Exception passed to the ExceptionHanlder.HandleException can not be null");
throw new MeaningfulException();
}
This prevents system from sending wrong confusing exception. Instead of this we can for example send SoapException with the message that operation couldn't be completed.
