[c#] Identifying Exception Type in a handler Catch Block

I have created custom exception class

public class Web2PDFException : Exception
{
    public Web2PDFException(string message, Exception innerException)
        : base(message, innerException) { ... }
}

In my application how can I find out if it is my custom exception or not?

try {  ...  }

catch (Exception err)
{
//Find exception type here
}

try
{
    // Some code
}
catch (Web2PDFException ex)
{
    // It's your special exception
}
catch (Exception ex)
{
    // Any other exception here
}

you can add some extra information to your exception in your class and then when you catch the exception you can control your custom information to identify your exception

this.Data["mykey"]="keyvalue"; //you can add any type of data if you want 

and then you can get your value

string mystr = (string) err.Data["mykey"];

like that for more information: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.exception.data.aspx

Alternative Solution

Instead halting a debug session to add some throw-away statements to then recompile and restart, why not just use the debugger to answer that question immediately when a breakpoint is hit?

That can be done by opening up the Immediate Window of the debugger and typing a GetType off of the exception and hitting Enter. The immediate window also allows one to interrogate variables as needed.

See VS Docs: Immediate Window

For example I needed to know what the exception was and just extracted the Name property of GetType as such without having to recompile:

Alternatively:

var exception = err as Web2PDFException; 

if ( excecption != null ) 
{ 
     Web2PDFException wex = exception; 
     .... 
}

try
{
}
catch (Exception err)
{
    if (err is Web2PDFException)
        DoWhatever();
}

but there is probably a better way of doing whatever it is you want.

When dealing with situations where I don't exactly know what type of exception might come out of a method, a little "trick" I like to do is to recover the Exception's class name and add it to the error log so there is more information.

try
{
   <code>

} catch ( Exception caughtEx )
{
   throw new Exception("Unknown Exception Thrown: "
                       + "\n  Type:    " + caughtEx.GetType().Name
                       + "\n  Message: " + caughtEx.Message);
}

I do vouch for always handling Exceptions types individually, but the extra bit of info can be helpful, specially when dealing with code from people who love to capture catch-all generic types.

You should always catch exceptions as concrete as possible, so you should use

try
{
    //code
}
catch (Web2PDFException ex)
{
    //Handle the exception here
}

You chould of course use something like this if you insist:

try
{
}
catch (Exception err)
{
    if (err is Web2PDFException)
    {
        //Code
    }
}