Why Create Custom Exceptions? [closed]

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Specific customs exceptions allow you to segregate different error types for your catch statements. The common construct for exception handling is this:

try
{}
catch (Exception ex)
{}

This catches all exceptions regardless of type. However, if you have custom exceptions, you can have separate handlers for each type:

try
{}
catch (CustomException1 ex1)
{
    //handle CustomException1 type errors here
}
catch (CustomException2 ex2)
{
    //handle CustomException2 type errors here
}
catch (Exception ex)
{
    //handle all other types of exceptions here
}

Ergo, specific exceptions allow you a finer level of control over your exception handling. This benefit is shared not only by custom exceptions, but all other exception types in the .NET system libraries as well.

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