Reducing duplicate error handling code in C#?

Question

I\'ve never been completely happy with the way exception handling works, there\'s a lot exceptions and try/catch brings to the table (stack unwinding, etc.), but it seems to

Answer 1

Just wondering, what do you feel your method leaves to be desired? You could replace the anonymous delegate with a.. named? delegate, something like

    public delegate void IoOperation(params string[] parameters);

    public void FileDeleteOperation(params string[] fileName)
    {
        File.Delete(fileName[0]);
    }

    public void FileCopyOperation(params string[] fileNames)
    {
        File.Copy(fileNames[0], fileNames[1]);
    }

    public void RetryFileIO(IoOperation operation, params string[] parameters)
    {
        RetryTimer fileIORetryTimer = new RetryTimer(TimeSpan.FromHours(10));
        bool success = false;
        while (!success)
        {
            try
            {
                operation(parameters);
                success = true;
            }
            catch (IOException e)
            {
                if (fileIORetryTimer.HasExceededRetryTimeout)
                {
                    throw;
                }
                fileIORetryTimer.SleepUntilNextRetry();
            }
        }
    }

    public void Foo()
    {
        this.RetryFileIO(FileDeleteOperation, "L:\file.to.delete" );
        this.RetryFileIO(FileCopyOperation, "L:\file.to.copy.source", "L:\file.to.copy.destination" );
    }