Cleanest way to write retry logic?

Question

Occasionally I have a need to retry an operation several times before giving up. My code is like:

int retries = 3;
while(true) {
  try {
    DoSomething();
         


        

Answer 1

public delegate void ThingToTryDeletage();

public static void TryNTimes(ThingToTryDelegate, int N, int sleepTime)
{
   while(true)
   {
      try
      {
        ThingToTryDelegate();
      } catch {

            if( --N == 0) throw;
          else Thread.Sleep(time);          
      }
}