Check if List or document/Picture library already exists

During one of my project i came accross this situation many time when i had to check whether list or document library already exists or not. So here is the solution

To check document/picture library there is an existing method which can be used like below

if (!web.GetFolder(strName).Exists)

{

......

}

Here 'strName' is the name of document/picture library.

But for list this method does not work. Unfortunately there is no method to check if list exists so we need to do a trick for that, check out below

SPList list = null;

try

{

list = web.Lists[strListTitle];

}

catch { }

if (list == null)

{

.....

Cheers.