What you could do if the Socket class suports IDisposable is use a using statement, that way, you don't have to worry about writing a finnally block, the Scocket object will dispose itself.

using (Socket udpSocket = new Socket(ipEP.Address.AddressFamily,SocketType.Dgram,ProtocolType.Udp))
{
	// some more code				
}

HTH
>I can not remember the exact syntax for what I want to do, but I am sure this is used all over the place.
>Considder the code:
>

>try
>{
>  // some code
>  IPEndPoint ipEP = new IPEndPoint(paraIPAddress, iPort);
>  Socket udpSocket = new Socket(ipEP.Address.AddressFamily,SocketType.Dgram,ProtocolType.Udp);
>  // some more code
>}
>catch(Exception ex)
>{
>  //Do something if exception is thrown
>}
>finally
>{
>  //I need some code here to test if the socket is created/initialized
>  udpSocket.Close();
>}
>

>
>The contents of the code is not really important, but what can I use in the finally block to ensure that the object that I am trying to call the "clean-up" code for (in this case Close()) has been initialized? What if an error was thrown before the line Socket udpSocket = new Socket(...), I want to call Close() on the udpSocket in the finally block but only if the object udpSocket is defined.
>
>Thanks,
>Einar