Since you have enabled custom errors in your web. Config, the exception will be caught before the Application_Error executes and redirect you to oops. Aspx .
If you don't want this from happening do not enable custom errors in your web.config. This way all errors will go through Application_Error assuming you have configured IIS to run the application pool in Integrated pipeline mode.
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