.NET: Which Exception to Throw When a Required Configuration Setting is Missing?

Question

Here\'s a standard scenario:

if(string.IsNullOrEmpty(Configuration.AppSettings[\"foobar\"]))
   throw new SomeStandardException(\"Application not configured          


        

Answer 1

I'd suck it up and roll my own... but before you do that, Is it possible to have the system assume a default value for this configuration setting? I generally attempt to do that for every setting that might get missed bu Ops Management folk... (or perhaps I should say, for as many settings as possible - for some it is clearly not appropriate to have the system make a default decision...)

in general a custom exception is not a lot of effort... here's an example...

[Serializable]
public class MyCustomApplicationException : ApplicationException
{
    #region privates
    #endregion privates

    #region properties
    #endregion properties

    public MyCustomApplicationException (string sMessage,
        Exception innerException)
        : base(sMessage, innerException) { }
    public MyCustomApplicationException (string sMessage)
        : base(sMessage) { }
    public MyCustomApplicationException () { }

    #region Serializeable Code
    public MyCustomApplicationException (
       SerializationInfo info, StreamingContext context)
        : base(info, context) { }
    #endregion Serializeable Code
}