How to ignore an exception AND complete the try

Question

So I\'ve been battling this issue for about a week now and think I know the issue but I don\'t want to report an answer there until I have it pegged down.

In a nutshell,

Answer 1

serialPort1.Open();

is what is throwing the exception. Normally when you code, if an exception happens you do clean up of the connections.

As others mentioned, if you keep calling this same method, you'll keep getting exception unless things about the call change.

So understanding that, my suggestion would be that you look for other ways to open the serial port, other than the serialPort1.Open(); call. There may or may not be built in ways in C#. So you might have to be creative :)