Elegantly handle task cancellation

Question

When using tasks for large/long running workloads that I need to be able to cancel I often use a template similar to this for the action the task executes:

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Answer 1

I am not entirely sure of what you are trying to achieve here but I think the following pattern might help

public void DoWork(CancellationToken cancelToken)
{
    try
    {
        //do work
        cancelToken.ThrowIfCancellationRequested();
        //more work
    }
    catch (OperationCanceledException) {}
    catch (Exception ex)
    {
        Log.Exception(ex);
    }
}

You might have observed that I have removed the throw statement from here. This will not throw the exception but will simply ignore it.

Let me know if you intend to do something else.

There is yet another way which is quite close to what you have exhibited in your code

    catch (Exception ex)
    {
        if (!ex.GetType().Equals()
        {
            Log.Exception(ex);

        }
    }