Mastering Result Pattern in C#: Avoid Common Pitfalls

The Result pattern in C# is an alternative to exception-based error handling. It avoids throwing exceptions and instead returns a special result object. This object indicates success or failure and can hold additional error information. This leads to cleaner and more predictable code flow. Developers can check the result and handle errors more precisely. The Result pattern is especially useful when errors are expected and exceptions are inefficient.

When learning about Result pattern, a lot of questions come to mind:

1) Should we completely eliminate exceptions from our code?
2) Can we use both exceptions and normal returns in the same project?
3) When to throw an exception and when to return a value?

In this tutorial, I tried to cover all of these questions.

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