C# Error Codes
C# errors explained in plain English. Find your error below.
Error Codes
ArgumentNullException
C#
Programming Language
ArgumentNullException means you passed null into a method that requires an …
ArgumentOutOfRangeException
C#
Programming Language
ArgumentOutOfRangeException means a value you passed to a method was outside the …
CS0019
C#
Programming Language
CS0019 means you used a mathematical, comparison, or logical operator on two …
CS0029
C#
Programming Language
CS0029 means you tried to put a value of one type into a variable of a different …
CS0051
C#
Programming Language
CS0051 means you have inconsistent accessibility — a public method or property …
CS0103
C#
Programming Language
CS0103 means the compiler cannot find a name you used — a variable, method, …
CS0120
C#
Programming Language
CS0120 means you tried to call a method or access a property that belongs to an …
CS0162
C#
Programming Language
CS0162 is a compiler warning that tells you some of your code can never execute. …
CS0168
C#
Programming Language
CS0168 is a compiler warning that tells you a variable was declared but its …
CS0234
C#
Programming Language
CS0234 means C# cannot find a type or namespace inside a namespace you …
CS0246
C#
Programming Language
CS0246 means the compiler cannot find a type — a class, interface, enum, struct, …
CS0428
C#
Programming Language
CS0428 means you wrote a method name where a value was expected, but forgot to …
CS0535
C#
Programming Language
CS0535 means your class says it implements an interface but is missing one or …
CS0579
C#
Programming Language
CS0579 means you applied the same attribute to a class, method, or property more …
CS1061
C#
Programming Language
CS1061 means you tried to access a method, property, or field on an object, but …
CS1503
C#
Programming Language
CS1503 means you called a method and passed an argument of the wrong type.
The …
DivideByZeroException
C#
Programming Language
DivideByZeroException is thrown when your code tries to divide a number by zero. …
FileNotFoundException
C#
Programming Language
FileNotFoundException means your code tried to open or read a file, but the file …
FormatException
C#
Programming Language
FormatException means you tried to convert a value — usually a string — into …
IndexOutOfRangeException
C#
Programming Language
IndexOutOfRangeException means you tried to access a slot in an array that does …
InvalidOperationException
C#
Programming Language
InvalidOperationException means you called a method or performed an action that …
NotImplementedException
C#
Programming Language
NotImplementedException is thrown when a method has been defined (has a …
NullReferenceException
C#
Programming Language
NullReferenceException means your code tried to use an object that has no value …
OutOfMemoryException
C#
Programming Language
OutOfMemoryException means your program tried to allocate more memory than was …
StackOverflowException
C#
Programming Language
StackOverflowException means your program ran out of call stack space.
This …
UnauthorizedAccessException
C#
Programming Language
UnauthorizedAccessException means your program tried to access a file, folder, …