Handling TimeSpan Exception in c#

Question

I have these below lines of code.

if (TimeSpan.ParseExact((VSFlexShift.get_TextMatrix(VSFlexShift.Row, 2)), @"hh\:mm\:ss", CultureInfo.InvariantCulture) > TimeSpan.MaxValue)

which i wrote to check if the end user types the time as 12:68:56 Some what like this it should return;. But what is happening right now is the code directly catch the Exception. Is there any way so that i can handle it inside the loop only rather than its going to Catch(Exception ex).

Exception Message:

The TimeSpan could not be parsed because at least one of the numeric components is out of range or contains too many digits.

Answer 1

You're looking for the equivalent TimeSpan.TryParseExact which returns a bool instead of throwing an exception:

TimeSpan timeSpan;
if (!TimeSpan.TryParseExact(VSFlexShift.get_TextMatrix(VSFlexShift.Row, 2),
    @"hh\:mm\:ss", CultureInfo.InvariantCulture, out timeSpan))
{
    // TimeSpan isn't valid.
}

Regarding the > TimeSpan.MaxValue, I'm not really sure why what you're trying to check, but a TimeSpan object can't be larger then it's own maximum value.