Better way to write retry logic without goto [duplicate]

Answer 1

@Michael's answer (with a correctly implemented out catch block) is probably the easiest to use in your case, and is the simplest. But in the interest of presenting alternatives, here is a version that factors the "retry" flow control into a separate method:

// define a flow control method that performs an action, with an optional retry
public static void WithRetry( Action action, Action recovery )
{
    try {
        action(); 
    }
    catch (Exception) {
        recovery();
        action();
    }
}

public void Send(string body)
{
    WithRetry(() =>
    // action logic:
    {
       m_Outputfile.Write(body);
       m_Outputfile.Flush();
    },
    // retry logic:
    () =>
    {
       m_Outputfile = new StreamWriter(m_Filepath, true);
    });
}

You could, of course, improve this with things like retry counts, better error propagation, and so on.