Assert.Inconclusive

I'm currently using MSTest in my day to day work and I'm not always writing true unit tests but occasionally I'm also writing what I call integration tests. That is tests that uses a real database and/or web service. As such these integration tests are fragile and might fail because of the configuration on the machine running the tests or just because a service is temporarily down. Getting a test failure because of this is annoying and you really want to make sure that whoever sees the failure knows an occasional failure may be "OK". So in order to signal that the test didn't really fail but was unable to run as expected and intended I use Assert.Inconclusive. Basically if I'm relying on a web service I ping it if there is a failure. if the ping also fails I'll use Assert.Inconclusive to signal that the test can be ignored in the test run.