Repeating a function in C# until it no longer throws an exception

Question

I\'ve got a class that calls a SOAP interface, and gets an array of data back. However, if this request times out, it throws an exception. This is good. However, I want m

Answer 1

while(salesOrdersArray == null){

  try
  {
    salesOrdersArray = MagServ.salesOrderList(sessID, filter);
  }
  catch(salesOrderException e)
  {
     log(e.message);
  }
}

This will run forever, and is using exceptions as a loop which is slow. Is there a way you can modify your function that it returns null, instead of throwing an exception? If you're expecting that this call will fail regularly, don't use a try/catch block.