Is it “bad” to use try-catch for flow control in .NET?

Question

I just found in a project:

try
{
    myLabel.Text = school.SchoolName;
}
catch
{
    myPanel.Visible = false;
}

I want to talk to the devel

Answer 1

In my opinion this is poor because it could be made much more clear with an if statement:

if (school != null) {
    myLabel.Text = school.SchoolName;
}
else {
    myPanel.Visible = false;
}

That will certainly avoid using exception handling unnecessarily and make the code's meaning very obvious.