Suppress warning on unused exception variable in C#

Question

I have this code:

try {     someMethod(); } catch (XYZException e) {     // do something without using e } 

Doing this will give me a warning about declaring but never using e, which I hate. However, I also don't want to use a catch clause without that variable, because then it will catch all exceptions, not just XYZExceptions. This seems like a fairly often occurring pattern. I know I can use #pragma warning disable 0168 to suppress the warning, but I don't really find that a very elegant solution. Is there a better way?

Answer 1

Define the catch clause without the exception variable as follows:

try {     someMethod(); } catch (XYZException) {     // do something without using e }