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== {{Anchor|VEH}}Vectored Exception Handling ==

Vectored Exception Handling was introduced in [[Windows XP]].<ref name="VEH">{{cite web|url=http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc301714.aspx|title=Under the Hood: New Vectored Exception Handling in Windows XP |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080915135659/http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc301714.aspx |archive-date = 2008-09-15 |url-status=dead}}</ref> Vectored Exception Handling is made available to Windows programmers using languages such as [[C++]] and [[Visual Basic]]. VEH does not replace Structured Exception Handling (SEH),; rather, VEH and SEH coexist, with VEH handlers having priority over SEH handlers.<ref name="devx" /><ref name="VEH" />

Compared with SEH, VEH works more like kernel-delivered [[Signal (IPC)|Unix signals]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc300448.aspx|title=Windows Server 2003 Discover Improved System Info, New Kernel, Debugging, Security, and UI APIs |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080505055123/http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc300448.aspx |archive-date = 2008-05-05 |url-status=dead}}</ref>