diff --git a/docs/standard/exceptions/snippets/how-to-use-specific-exceptions-in-a-catch-block/cpp/catchexception.cpp b/docs/standard/exceptions/snippets/how-to-use-specific-exceptions-in-a-catch-block/cpp/catchexception.cpp
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-//<Snippet2>
-using namespace System;
-
-public ref class Employee
-{
-public:
-    Employee()
-    {
-        emlevel = 0;
-    }
-
-    //Create employee level property.
-    property int Emlevel
-    {
-        int get()
-        {
-            return emlevel;
-        }
-        void set(int value)
-        {
-            emlevel = value;
-        }
-    }
-
-private:
-    int emlevel;
-};
-
-public ref class Ex13
-{
-public:
-    static void PromoteEmployee(Object^ emp)
-    {
-        //Cast object to Employee.
-        Employee^ e = (Employee^) emp;
-        // Increment employee level.
-        e->Emlevel++;
-    }
-
-    static void Main()
-    {
-        try
-        {
-            Object^ o = gcnew Employee();
-            DateTime^ newyears = gcnew DateTime(2001, 1, 1);
-            //Promote the new employee.
-            PromoteEmployee(o);
-            //Promote DateTime; results in InvalidCastException as newyears is not an employee instance.
-            PromoteEmployee(newyears);
-        }
-        catch (InvalidCastException^ e)
-        {
-            Console::WriteLine("Error passing data to PromoteEmployee method. " + e->Message);
-        }
-    }
-};
-
-int main()
-{
-    Ex13::Main();
-}
-//</Snippet2>
diff --git a/docs/standard/exceptions/snippets/how-to-use-the-try-catch-block-to-catch-exceptions/cpp/catchexception.cpp b/docs/standard/exceptions/snippets/how-to-use-the-try-catch-block-to-catch-exceptions/cpp/catchexception.cpp
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-//<snippet3>
-using namespace System;
-using namespace System::IO;
-
-public ref class ProcessFile
-{
-public:
-    static void Main()
-    {
-        try
-        {
-            StreamReader^ sr = File::OpenText("data.txt");
-            Console::WriteLine("The first line of this file is {0}", sr->ReadLine());
-	        sr->Close();
-        }
-        catch (Exception^ e)
-        {
-            Console::WriteLine("An error occurred: '{0}'", e);
-        }
-    }
-};
-
-int main()
-{
-    ProcessFile::Main();
-}
-//</snippet3>