Question

I’m working on an asp.net application which communicates with web services. However quite often of late, the services have been down. I don’t want to throw a generic Exception but rather a very specific one. What is the Exception name that handles ‘connection timed out’. Thank you!

Answer 1

The correct one to throw is TimeoutException. The default message is The operation has timed-out

From MSDN:

The exception that is thrown when the time allotted for a process or operation has expired.