Raising and throwing exceptions in C#

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Exception Handling - slide 23 : 30

Raising and throwing exceptions in C#

We are using an athletic metaphor for establishing an error condition

 throw exception-object

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throw new MyException("Description of problem");
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class MyException: ApplicationException{
  public MyException(String problem): 
    base(problem){
  }
}