In response to a previous post decrying the lack of a master list of Exception classes for .NET, a helpful reader pointed out a clever little utility buried in the .NET SDK:
Program FilesMicrosoft Visual Studio .NET 2003SDKv1.1Binwincv.exe
Wincv works well, but it doesn't allow me to sort or even copy out the class names. After reflecting on this a bit, I generated the following console app:
Sub Main()
ReflectionSearch(".*exception$")
Console.ReadLine()
End Sub
Sub ReflectionSearch(ByVal strPattern As String)
Dim a As Reflection.Assembly
Dim m As Reflection.Module
Dim t As Type
Dim al As New ArrayList
Dim sl As New SortedList
Dim strAssemblyName As String
For Each strAssemblyName In DefaultAssemblyList()
a = Reflection.Assembly.Load(strAssemblyName)
For Each m In a.GetModules
For Each t In m.GetTypes
al.Add(t)
Dim strFullName As String = t.FullName
If Regex.IsMatch(strFullName, strPattern, RegexOptions.IgnoreCase) Then
sl.Add(strFullName, Nothing)
End If
Next
Next
Next
Dim de As DictionaryEntry
For Each de In sl
Console.WriteLine(de.Key)
Next
Console.WriteLine(sl.Count.ToString & " matches for " & strPattern)
End Sub
Function DefaultAssemblyList() as ArrayList
Dim al As New ArrayList
With al
.Add("mscorlib, Version=1.0.5000.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089")
.Add("System.Data, Version=1.0.5000.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089")
.Add("System, Version=1.0.5000.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089")
.Add("System.Runtime.Remoting, Version=1.0.5000.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089")
.Add("System.Windows.Forms, Version=1.0.5000.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089")
.Add("System.Xml, Version=1.0.5000.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089")
.Add("System.Design, Version=1.0.5000.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a")
.Add("System.DirectoryServices, Version=1.0.5000.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a")
.Add("System.Drawing.Design, Version=1.0.5000.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a")
.Add("System.Drawing, Version=1.0.5000.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a")
.Add("System.Messaging, Version=1.0.5000.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a")
.Add("System.Runtime.Serialization.Formatters.Soap, Version=1.0.5000.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a")
.Add("System.Security, Version=1.0.5000.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a")
.Add("System.ServiceProcess, Version=1.0.5000.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a")
.Add("System.Web, Version=1.0.5000.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a")
.Add("System.Web.Services, Version=1.0.5000.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a")
.Add("System.Management, Version=1.0.5000.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a")
End With
Return al
End Function
This console app produces the following (mostly) sorted list of 141 classes in the framework that end in Exception. Now there's really no reason to throw generic System.Exception, because one of these likely to be a better match-- or, failing that, a custom Exception. Thanks for the tips, guys.
p.s. I really am lazy.
System.AppDomainUnloadedException System.ApplicationException System.ArgumentException System.ArgumentNullException System.ArgumentOutOfRangeException System.ArithmeticException System.ArrayTypeMismatchException System.BadImageFormatException System.CannotUnloadAppDomainException System.ComponentModel.Design.CheckoutException System.ComponentModel.Design.Serialization.CodeDomSerializerException System.ComponentModel.InvalidEnumArgumentException System.ComponentModel.LicenseException System.ComponentModel.WarningException System.ComponentModel.Win32Exception System.Configuration.ConfigurationException System.ContextMarshalException System.Data.ConstraintException System.Data.DataException System.Data.DBConcurrencyException System.Data.DeletedRowInaccessibleException System.Data.DuplicateNameException System.Data.EvaluateException System.Data.ExprException System.Data.InRowChangingEventException System.Data.InvalidConstraintException System.Data.InvalidExpressionException System.Data.MissingPrimaryKeyException System.Data.NoNullAllowedException System.Data.Odbc.OdbcException System.Data.OleDb.OleDbException System.Data.ReadOnlyException System.Data.RowNotInTableException System.Data.SqlClient._ValueException System.Data.SqlClient.SqlException System.Data.SqlTypes.SqlNullValueException System.Data.SqlTypes.SqlTruncateException System.Data.SqlTypes.SqlTypeException System.Data.StrongTypingException System.Data.SyntaxErrorException System.Data.TypedDataSetGeneratorException System.Data.VersionNotFoundException System.DivideByZeroException System.DllNotFoundException System.Drawing.Printing.InvalidPrinterException System.DuplicateWaitObjectException System.EntryPointNotFoundException System.Exception System.ExecutionEngineException System.FieldAccessException System.FormatException System.IndexOutOfRangeException System.InvalidCastException System.InvalidOperationException System.InvalidProgramException System.IO.DirectoryNotFoundException System.IO.EndOfStreamException System.IO.FileLoadException System.IO.FileNotFoundException System.IO.InternalBufferOverflowException System.IO.IOException System.IO.IsolatedStorage.IsolatedStorageException System.IO.PathTooLongException System.Management.ManagementException System.MemberAccessException System.Messaging.MessageQueueException System.MethodAccessException System.MissingFieldException System.MissingMemberException System.MissingMethodException System.MulticastNotSupportedException System.Net.CookieException System.Net.ProtocolViolationException System.Net.Sockets.SocketException System.Net.WebException System.NotFiniteNumberException System.NotImplementedException System.NotSupportedException System.NullReferenceException System.ObjectDisposedException System.OutOfMemoryException System.OverflowException System.PlatformNotSupportedException System.RankException System.Reflection.AmbiguousMatchException System.Reflection.CustomAttributeFormatException System.Reflection.InvalidFilterCriteriaException System.Reflection.ReflectionTypeLoadException System.Reflection.TargetException System.Reflection.TargetInvocationException System.Reflection.TargetParameterCountException System.Resources.MissingManifestResourceException System.Runtime.InteropServices.COMException System.Runtime.InteropServices.ExternalException System.Runtime.InteropServices.InvalidComObjectException System.Runtime.InteropServices.InvalidOleVariantTypeException System.Runtime.InteropServices.MarshalDirectiveException System.Runtime.InteropServices.SafeArrayRankMismatchException System.Runtime.InteropServices.SafeArrayTypeMismatchException System.Runtime.InteropServices.SEHException System.Runtime.Remoting.MetadataServices.SUDSGeneratorException System.Runtime.Remoting.MetadataServices.SUDSParserException System.Runtime.Remoting.RemotingException System.Runtime.Remoting.RemotingTimeoutException System.Runtime.Remoting.ServerException System.Runtime.Serialization.SerializationException System.Security.Cryptography.CryptographicException System.Security.Cryptography.CryptographicUnexpectedOperationException System.Security.Policy.PolicyException System.Security.SecurityException System.Security.VerificationException System.Security.XmlSyntaxException System.ServiceProcess.TimeoutException System.StackOverflowException System.SystemException System.Threading.SynchronizationLockException System.Threading.ThreadAbortException System.Threading.ThreadInterruptedException System.Threading.ThreadStateException System.Threading.ThreadStopException System.TypeInitializationException System.TypeLoadException System.TypeUnloadedException System.UnauthorizedAccessException System.UriFormatException System.Web.HttpApplication+CancelModuleException System.Web.HttpCompileException System.Web.HttpException System.Web.HttpParseException System.Web.HttpRequestValidationException System.Web.HttpUnhandledException System.Web.Services.Discovery.InvalidContentTypeException System.Web.Services.Discovery.InvalidDocumentContentsException System.Web.Services.Protocols.SoapException System.Web.Services.Protocols.SoapHeaderException System.Windows.Forms.AxHost+InvalidActiveXStateException System.Xml.Schema.XmlSchemaException System.Xml.XmlException System.Xml.XPath.XPathException System.Xml.Xsl.XsltCompileException System.Xml.Xsl.XsltException