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    Why is this an issue?
    

    The point of having custom exception types is to convey more information than is available in standard types. But custom exception types must be
public for that to work.
    

    If a method throws a non-public exception, the best you can do on the caller’s side is to catch the closest public base
of the class. However, you lose all the information that the new exception type carries.
    

    This rule will raise an issue if you directly inherit one of the following exception types in a non-public class:
    


    How to fix it
    

    Code examples
    

    Noncompliant code example
    

    Friend Class MyException    ' Noncompliant
    Inherits Exception
    ' ...
End Class

    

    Compliant solution
    

    Public Class MyException
    Inherits Exception
    ' ...
End Class

    

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