>>Yes, it's standard practice to only trap exceptions which you can handle, which usually isn't just "Exception", but a specific type of exception (or exceptions). Having said that, sometimes you have to capture the generic "Exception" type because no other (more specific exception) type is available.
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>Paul,
>At that point, why don't you just create a custom Exception class? I do this a lot to trap business logic exceptions.

Would you please elaborate a bit on that with code sample?