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+// Licensed to the .NET Foundation under one or more agreements.
+// The .NET Foundation licenses this file to you under the MIT license.
+// See the LICENSE file in the project root for more information.
+
+/*=============================================================================
+**
+**
+**
+** Purpose: The base class for all "less serious" exceptions that must be
+**          declared or caught.
+**
+**
+=============================================================================*/
+
+using System.Runtime.Serialization;
+
+namespace System
+{
+    // The ApplicationException is the base class for nonfatal, 
+    // application errors that occur.  These exceptions are generated 
+    // (i.e., thrown) by an application, not the Runtime. Applications that need 
+    // to create their own exceptions do so by extending this class. 
+    // ApplicationException extends but adds no new functionality to 
+    // RecoverableException.
+    // 
+    [Serializable]
+    public class ApplicationException : Exception
+    {
+        // Creates a new ApplicationException with its message string set to
+        // the empty string, its HRESULT set to COR_E_APPLICATION, 
+        // and its ExceptionInfo reference set to null. 
+        public ApplicationException()
+            : base(SR.Arg_ApplicationException)
+        {
+            HResult = __HResults.COR_E_APPLICATION;
+        }
+
+        // Creates a new ApplicationException with its message string set to
+        // message, its HRESULT set to COR_E_APPLICATION, 
+        // and its ExceptionInfo reference set to null. 
+        // 
+        public ApplicationException(String message)
+            : base(message)
+        {
+            HResult = __HResults.COR_E_APPLICATION;
+        }
+
+        public ApplicationException(String message, Exception innerException)
+            : base(message, innerException)
+        {
+            HResult = __HResults.COR_E_APPLICATION;
+        }
+
+        protected ApplicationException(SerializationInfo info, StreamingContext context) : base(info, context) { }
+    }
+}