Why does SortedList implementation use ThrowHelper instead of throwing directly?

Look at what ThrowHelper does. It gets resources and stuff for the error messages. In this particular instance, there's no error text, so it seems like it's useless, but their pattern probably requires it, so the developer who wrote it followed the pattern like s/he should.

According to ThrowHelper.cs source code the main purpose is to reduce the JITted code size. Below is a direct copy paste from the link:

// This file defines an internal class used to throw exceptions in BCL code.
// The main purpose is to reduce code size. 
// 
// The old way to throw an exception generates quite a lot IL code and assembly code.
// Following is an example:
//     C# source
//          throw new ArgumentNullException("key", Environment.GetResourceString("ArgumentNull_Key"));
//     IL code:
//          IL_0003:  ldstr      "key"
//          IL_0008:  ldstr      "ArgumentNull_Key"
//          IL_000d:  call       string System.Environment::GetResourceString(string)
//          IL_0012:  newobj     instance void System.ArgumentNullException::.ctor(string,string)
//          IL_0017:  throw
//    which is 21bytes in IL.
// 
// So we want to get rid of the ldstr and call to Environment.GetResource in IL.
// In order to do that, I created two enums: ExceptionResource, ExceptionArgument to represent the
// argument name and resource name in a small integer. The source code will be changed to 
//    ThrowHelper.ThrowArgumentNullException(ExceptionArgument.key, ExceptionResource.ArgumentNull_Key);
//
// The IL code will be 7 bytes.
//    IL_0008:  ldc.i4.4
//    IL_0009:  ldc.i4.4
//    IL_000a:  call       void System.ThrowHelper::ThrowArgumentNullException(valuetype System.ExceptionArgument)
//    IL_000f:  ldarg.0
//
// This will also reduce the Jitted code size a lot.