I think the best answer is: rarely. It's really hard to go straight to a justification here though. I find that answering a different question will eventually shed led on when to create a new exception. "What are the benefits of
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Really this guideline is a bit longer but putting it all in a blog title seemed a bit too much. The full guideline should read: "If a generic class constructor arguments contain types of all generic parameters, provide a static method named
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CComObject::CreateInstance is a light weight method for creating instances of COM objects in your code. Unfortunately the design of the API makes it easy to introduce subtle errors into your code. The two problems are it encourages manually ref counting
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