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Creating custom exceptions

This tutorial will show you how to create your own exceptions by using a class derived from System.ApplicationException.

On Wednesday, July 28th 2004 at 07:41 AM

By Andrew Pociu (View Profile)

(Rated 3.2 with 25 votes)

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This is the continuation of the tutorial named Handling and throwing exceptions. I recommend you read that tutorial first.

In that tutorial, at the end you saw how to throw your own exceptions. Here will do the same thing, but a bit more complicated because now you'll be able to customize the exception.

Create a new Console Application project named customExceptions in Microsoft Visual Studio .NET.

First we'll have to create the class derived from System.ApplicationException:

// Creating the class derived from System.ApplicationException

public class NumberZeroException : System.ApplicationException

{

   // The constructor that takes msg as a parameter

   public NumberZeroException(string msg) : base(msg)

   {

   }

}

As you can see, it's nothing more than a class derived from System.ApplicationException with a constructor that takes the msg as a parameter.

Here's Class1 where we actually throw the exception if the user enters '0'.

class Class1

{

   [STAThread]

   static void Main(string[] args)

   {

      // Prompt the user to enter an integer

      Console.WriteLine("Please input an integer: ");

      // Try this block of code

      try

      {

         // Store the input in x

         int x = Convert.ToInt32(Console.ReadLine());

         // If the number entered is 0...

         if(x == 0)

         {

            // ...throw our custom exception with the following message parameter

            throw new NumberZeroException("You are not allowed to enter number 0");

         }

         // Show what the user entered (if it ain't 0)

         Console.WriteLine("You entered: " + x.ToString());

      }

      // Catch the custom exception

      catch(NumberZeroException e)

      {

         // And display the error message

         Console.WriteLine("Error: " + e.Message);

      }

   }

}

The code is fully commented so I suppose you have no problem understanding it.

Now let's compile it and enter '0' when prompted:

Please input an integer:

0

Error: You are not allowed to enter number 0

Press any key to continue

That's all.

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by Shankar on Tuesday, August 7th 2007 at 08:46 AM

Thank you, it helped me...

by Coralys.com on Friday, August 1st 2008 at 07:16 AM

A very simplistic approach that does not cover proper custom exception "manufacturing". In fact if you read Microsoft documentation you will see that they say you must derive your custom exceptions from System.Exception and NOT from System.ApplicationException.

You also missed here the default constructors and the serialization constraints.

But well, better than nothing at all.

by Structed on Tuesday, February 17th 2009 at 04:41 AM

Sorry to say that, but that's absolutely useless.
You can learn even more if you just use the Exception-Snippet in Visual Studio (Express)...

by software dev on Thursday, December 10th 2009 at 04:53 PM

"Where there is a will, there is a way"
If you have been in software development for a while, you would agree that criticizing any code block can be easy. Let's be a little positive and appreciate the efforts of the author.

by Structed on Friday, December 11th 2009 at 03:15 AM

I did not meant the code being bad or unclean.

But you are right. It's good to have someone telling the new developers directions.

Sorry for this post above. I have matured myself :-)

by mohit on Wednesday, March 24th 2010 at 06:56 AM

yes indeed it is helping enough

by KiNGPiN on Monday, April 19th 2010 at 08:56 AM

The simplest tutorial i found !! gr8 :)

by KiNGPiN on Monday, April 19th 2010 at 08:56 AM

The simplest tutorial i found !! gr8 :)

by Srikanth on Thursday, May 13th 2010 at 01:37 AM

Super mamau

by Coralys.com on Thursday, May 13th 2010 at 09:42 AM

If you don't provide constructive criticism developers are bound to commit (and enforce) errors over and over. There is much difference between a tutorial and a code snippet.

Anyway, if there are some that prefer to ignore the comments then sorry for the mistakes you are bound to commit now and in the future.

by KiNGPiN on Thursday, May 13th 2010 at 10:03 AM

True said , but it's the way a comment is made important

For me, it was the KISS(Keep it Simple Stupid) rule that made me like this Tutorial