To create a custom exception class, you should define a type. When designing custom exception classes, you should derive your class from System.Exception and not from ApplicationException.

In this post, I will present a few tips and best practices for working with exceptions in C#. The base class for all exceptions in .NET is Exception.

If you really want to take full control of the exceptions you pass to your clients, you can write your own Exception class. Here's how to do that, complete with support for additional properties.

Even though exception handling is common and every introductory Java course covers it, I still don't think we really know how to do it well. It is almost as if the general concept is still ...

All exceptions are subclasses of the SCLException class, which is a subclass of the SCLThrowable class. You can use the CLASS statement to define your own exception classes, and then use the THROW and ...

The custom Exception class I described in a column earlier this month will work fine … as long as the .NET Framework doesn't need to serialize your Exception object to return it to a remote client. If ...