Most appropriate exception for a collection not being initialised?

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Published on 2010-03-25T09:39:20Z Indexed on 2010/03/25 9:43 UTC
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What is the most appropriate .Net exception type for when you have a class which must have its collection property initialised with at least one item?

I'm thinking that it would be an ArgumentOutOfRangeException but is there something more appropriate based on a collection?

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