SQL Server Raiserror not causing exception in .NET client

Question

I have a stored procedure on a SQL Server 2005 database which has a statement like this:

  IF @Condition = 0
    BEGIN
        RAISERROR(\'some error message         


        

Answer 1

I went through the SQL Helper class and found out that ExecuteScalar eats the exception and returns null. I switched to ExecuteDataSet which doesn't do this. I expected the different Execute.. method to behave the same way. The other way is to use ExecuteScalar and when the SP detects an error, it does a SELECT some error number which can be handled in the client.