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[โ€“] PlexSheep@feddit.de 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

M$ Docu sounds like that doesn't make sense, do you have some more context?

[โ€“] MD87@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

It is a relic of the past, where Microsoft intended developers to inherit all their custom exceptions from ApplicationException. Shortly after, they changed their mind and advised that custom exceptions should derive from the base Exception class.

Apparently. (Source: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5685923/what-is-applicationexception-for-in-net)

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