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System.Reflection.Metadata throws BadImageFormatException on bad input
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If a user passes in a bad handle, for instance they get an `ExportedTypeHandle` from one MetadataReader instance's `MetadataReader.ExportedTypes`, and pass it to a different MetadataReader instance via `MetadataReader.GetExportedType` we will throw `BadImageFormatException`. This is unintuitive since both images are fine and the problem was with the *argument* passed to `GetExportedType`. We should probably be throwing something derived from `ArgumentException`, like `ArgumentOutOfRangeException` or something similar.
/cc @nguerrera @tmat
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