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Why is UnhandledExceptionEventArgs.ExceptionObject an object and not an Exception?
I am attaching to AppDomain.UnhandledException.
I would like to cast UnhandledExceptionEventArgs.ExceptionObject to an Exception and interogate it.
And with this in mind will it ever be null?
The MSDN documentation is not exatly useful.
Gets the unhandled exception object.
This cannot be typed to Exception because it’s possible to throw objects in .Net that do not derive from System.Exception. This is not possible in C# or VB.Net but it is possible in other CLR based languages. Hence the API must support this possibility and uses the type object.
So while it shouldn’t ever be null, it may not in fact be a System.Exception.
See CLI spec section 10.5 (specifically CLS rule 40) for more details