RAISERROR―How to distinguish with SqlException?

Question

I have some 3-4 stored procedures ― which I can modify if needed ― that use RAISERROR to inform my application of some fatal errors on the database side. Some

Answer 1

When you catch a SqlException, you can inspect its Errors collections which contains the detailed error messages.

Those SqlError objects contained very detailed information - including error code, message and so forth.

Using that information, you should be able to easily distinguish between connection-based errors, or errors that your raise yourself.