What is best practice when creating your exception classes in a .NET solution: To derive from System.Exception or from System.ApplicationException?
What is best practice when creating your exception classes in a .NET solution: To
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What is best practice when creating your exception classes in a .NET solution: To derive from System.Exception or from System.ApplicationException?
According to Jeffery Richter in the Framework Design Guidelines book:
It was intended to have some meaning in that you could potentially catch ‘all’ the application exceptions, but the pattern was not followed and so it has no value.