ApplicationException

Defines the base class for predefined exceptions in the user program.

Implements:

Exception
IObject

Public:

Properties:

Name	Description
Data (get)	Returns a key/value collection used to contain user-defined specific information about the exception.
ErrorNumber (get)	Returns the VB error number associated with this exception instance.
HelpLink (get)	Gets a link to a help file associated with the exception.
HelpLink (let)	Sets a link to a help file associated with the exception.
HResult (get)	Gets the HRESULT, a coded numerical value that is assigned to a specific exception.
InnerException (get)	Gets the exception that caused the Subclassed exception to be thrown.
Message (get)	Gets the error message associated with the Subclass exception.
Source (get)	Gets a description of the source of the exception.
Source (let)	Sets a description of the source of the exception.

Methods:

Name	Description
Equals	Provides a basic implementation of the Equals function of the IObject interface.
GetBaseException	Gets the original exception that caused the chain of exceptions to occur.
GetHashCode	Provides a basic implementation of the GetHashcode function of the IObject interface.
ToString	Returns the exception message prepended with the type name of the Subclass Exception.

Remarks

This class is used to help differenciate between exceptions raised by VBCorLib and the executing application. Instead of directly instantiating an ApplicationException object, a new class should be derived from ApplicationExceptionBase to easily specify the exception type.