Suggestions for making a reusable try/catch block in C#?

Question

I have a class that has about 20-some methods in it. Each one does some web service message processing. I just had to make a change to it, and realized that every one of these m

Answer 1

there are ways in which you can do it easily - firstly for me I have started using AOP in order to catch my exceptions

this would effectively turn your code

try
        {
            /* *** actual processing specific to each method goes here *** */
        }
        catch (FaultException cfex)
        {
            // common stuff
        }
        catch (CustomException cfex)
        {
            // common stuff
        }
        catch (Exception ex)
        {
            // common stuff
        }
        finally
        {
            FinalizeServiceCall(wsBus, wsMessage, response, logProps);
        }

into something like

[HandleException( Exception , FaultException, 
                      "Error Getting Details" )]
    public MYType GetDetails( string parameter )
    {
        //.... call to service
    }

using Postsharp - details here

alternatively there is a blog post by Mark Rendle on how to catch exceptions in a Functional Programming way - i have not tried this one though