try-catch blocks with the return type

Question

If I have a method that returns something, like

public DataTable ReturnSomething()
{
   try
   {  
      //logic here
     return ds.Tables[0];
   }
   catch (Ex         


        

Answer 1

Since you are cacthing the exception (and not throwing it again) in your example, The outside code assumes everyting is okay and therefor you should return something useful.

If you need to catch the exception there and do somthing that's all fine, but if it's still an error case you should also throw it, or a different exception, perhaps with the one you just caught as InnerException.