Question

I am currently in a try catch finding if a property has been set properly to the bool value that it should be like this…

public void RunBusinessRule(MyCustomType customType) {     try     {        if (customType.CustomBoolProperty == true)        {             DoSomething();         }        else        {             throw new Exception('This is obviously false or possibly null lets throw up an error.');        }     }     catch(Exception)     {         throw;     } } 

Now the deal with throwing this error for me is that I am using Microsoft’s source analysis and it gives me an error stating ‘CA2201 : Microsoft.Usage : Object.RunBusinessRule(MyCustomType)creates an exception of type ‘Exception’, an exception type that is not sufficiently specific and should never be raised by user code. If this exception instance might be thrown, use a different exception type.

Soooo What exception should I throw that would be specific enough for Microsoft.., for the circumstance of throwing an error about my own application’s logic handling and when I want to ‘throw’.

Answer 1

ArgumentException InvalidOperationException FormatException 

The passed in argument wasn’t good.