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C# C# Objects Inheritance Throwing Exceptions

Charlie Carpenter
Charlie Carpenter
3,398 Points

Can't understand why this won't work

Please help this is not being accepted can anyone help

Program.cs
int value = int.Parse(Console.ReadLine());

try {
    if (value < 0 || value > 20)
    {
        throw new System.Exception();
    }
    Console.WriteLine(string.Format("You entered {0}", value));
}
catch(Exception)
{
    Console.WriteLine("Value is out of bounds!");
}

1 Answer

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,198 Points

For this challenge, you only need to throw the exception. You don't need a "try" or "catch" block, and adding those will actually prevent the challenge from detecting that the "throw" has occurred.