Question

I have the following C# code:

try
{
    response = this.writeDataToChannel(writeRequest);
    if (response.Failures != null)
    {
        Console.WriteLine(response.Failures.First().cause);
    }
}
catch (TimeoutException te)
{
     Console.Error.WriteLine(te.Message);
}

When I run this code in release and push a lot of data to the service, VS2010 stops on the “writeDataToChannel” line with a TimeoutException. Shouldn’t my catch block catch the exception and just print it when the timeout happens?

The “writeDataToChannel” code was generated from a WSDL, the writes always work until I push tons of data to the webservice, so I don’t think there is a problem with my request.

It is not a namespace issue, in both cases it is a System.TimeoutException.

Answer 1

It sounds to me like you have Visual Studio set to stop on a thrown exception. Go to the menu item Debug->Exceptions and see what your CLR Exceptions settings are. To get the behavior that you’re describing, you don’t want to stop on caught or uncaught exceptions.

Alternatively, don’t run it under the debugger.