When is “Try” supposed to be used in C# method names?

Question

We were discussing with our coworkers on what it means if the method name starts with \"Try\".

There were the following opinions:

• Use \"Try\" when the

Answer 1

This is known as the TryParse pattern and has been documented by Microsoft. The official Exceptions and Performance MSDN page says:

Consider the TryParse pattern for members that may throw exceptions in common scenarios to avoid performance problems related to exceptions.

Thus if you have code for which a regular use case would mean that it might throw an exception (such as parsing an int), the TryParse pattern makes sense.