gistfile1.cs

public bool IsVisible 
{
    get
    {
        try
        {
            WebDriverWait wait = new WebDriverWait(Driver, TimeSpan.FromSeconds(3));
            ActiveCompaniesGrid = wait.Until(d => d.FindElement(ActiveCompaniesGridId));
            return ActiveCompaniesGrid.Displayed;
        }
        catch (WebDriverTimeoutException)
        {
            return false;
        }
    }
}

Thanks!

So you're waiting for the existence of that locator within the process of creating a new instance of the iwebelement.

If the wait period expires, the timeout exception will be thrown, in which case you can catch it and return false.

nosuchelement is already handled within the wait class.

something which finally makes sense to me is that the wait.Until() will throw the timeout exception if the element is not found during the time period.

I think I got led on a false trail from some online articles that were catching nosuchelement exceptions...

@Snogren Also, the thing that a lot of people miss is that the Until method returns a value. It returns the return value of the lambda function passed into it, and that return value can be either a reference type (a subclass of System.Object), or a boolean.

Yes I had missed that too. Very interesting. Thank you again for all your time, this was exciting to talk to you and learn.