ArgumentNullException
Class
Definition
The exception that is thrown when a null reference (Nothing in Visual Basic) is passed to a method that does not accept it as a valid argument.
[System.Runtime.InteropServices.ComVisible(true)]
public class ArgumentNullException : ArgumentException
- Inheritance
- Attributes
Inherited Members
System.ArgumentException
System.Exception
System.Object
Remarks
An ArgumentNullException exception is thrown when a method is invoked and at least one of the passed arguments is null but should never be null.
An ArgumentNullException exception is thrown at run time in the following two major circumstances, both of which reflect developer error:
An uninstantiated object is passed to a method. To prevent the error, instantiate the object.
An object returned from a method call is then passed as an argument to a second method, but the value of the original returned object is
null. To prevent the error, check for a return value that isnulland call the second method only if the return value is notnull.
ArgumentNullException behaves identically to ArgumentException. It is provided so that application code can differentiate between exceptions caused by null arguments and exceptions caused by arguments that are not null. For errors caused by arguments that are not null, see ArgumentOutOfRangeException.
ArgumentNullException uses the HRESULT E_POINTER, which has the value 0x80004003.
For a list of initial property values for an instance of ArgumentNullException, see the ArgumentNullException constructors.
Constructors
| ArgumentNullException() |
Initializes a new instance of the ArgumentNullException class. |
| ArgumentNullException(String) |
Initializes a new instance of the ArgumentNullException class with the name of the parameter that causes this exception. |
| ArgumentNullException(SerializationInfo, StreamingContext) |
Initializes a new instance of the ArgumentNullException class with serialized data. |
| ArgumentNullException(String, Exception) |
Initializes a new instance of the ArgumentNullException class with a specified error message and the exception that is the cause of this exception. |
| ArgumentNullException(String, String) |
Initializes an instance of the ArgumentNullException class with a specified error message and the name of the parameter that causes this exception. |