The Exception.GetType() mystery

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Spelunking through the Framework one day, I noticed that, new in Whidbey, System.Exception has this method:

        public new Type GetType(){
                   return base.GetType();
                }

Wow, how odd I thought. Adding a newslot to re-define Object’s GetType method then just returning the result of a call to Object.GetType (). Too odd, I thought, it has to be a bug, so I checked with the developer and nope, no bug… Any guesses why we did this?

I’ll post the answer at end of day today…