Best way to check for inner exception?

Question

I know sometimes innerException is null

So the following might fail:

 repEvent.InnerException = ex.InnerException.Message; 

Is ther

Answer 1

Its an old question but for future readers:

In addition to the answers already posted I think the correct way to do this (when you can have more than one InnerException) is Exception.GetBaseException Method

If you want the exception instance you should do this:

repEvent.InnerException = ex.GetBaseException();

If you are only looking for the message this way:

repEvent.InnerException = ex.GetBaseException().Message;