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copied!<p>They are <em>almost</em> the same.</p> <p>From the C# Language Specification, section 8.10:</p> <blockquote> <p>Some programming languages may support exceptions that are not representable as an object derived from System.Exception, although such exceptions could never be generated by C# code. A general catch clause may be used to catch such exceptions. Thus, a general catch clause is semantically different from one that specifies the type System.Exception, in that the former may also catch exceptions from other languages.</p> </blockquote> <p>Note that while C# differentiates between the two, they are effectively the same as of .NET 2.0, as noted by <a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/b/jmanning/archive/2005/09/16/469091.aspx" rel="nofollow">this blog</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>Thanks to a recent change in the 2.0 CLR, if you had code that decided to throw, say, an int (System.Int32) somewhere, the CLR will now wrap it with a RuntimeWrappedException, and the compiler has been updated to give you that warning that the second clause above is now dead code</p> <p><code>warning CS1058: A previous catch clause already catches all exceptions. All non-exceptions thrown will be wrapped in a System.Runtime.CompilerServices.RuntimeWrappedException</code></p> <p>For how the CLR knows to do this action for your assembly, you'll notice the compiler now adds a RuntimeCompatibilityAttribute to your assemblies telling it to:<br> <code>.custom instance void [mscorlib]System.Runtime.CompilerServices.RuntimeCompatibilityAttribute::.ctor() = {property bool 'WrapNonExceptionThrows' = bool(true)}</code></p> </blockquote>

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