Managing exceptions in web services (showing errors)

[Diego F.]

I use to show the error messages that I get in a try block.

try
{
...
}
catch (Exception ex)
{
... (ex.Message);
}

In a Windows App I use: Message.Show(ex.Message);

As the web service can be used in Windows apps or ASP.NET apps, what is the
way to do that?

Regards,

Diego F.

[Jan Tielens]

You may want to read following article:
http://www.microsoft.com/belux/nl/ms...xceptions.mspx
Throwing SoapExceptions
Summary:

Sometimes things can go wrong when code is executed, so Exceptions are
thrown. When your application exposes services through a webservice layer,
SoapExceptions are thrown from the server to the client. By default normal
Exceptions are converted to a SoapException, resulting in a rather ugly
Exception containing all information concatenated in a long String. But
luckily the SOAP protocol allows any XML document to be included in SOAP
error messages. This article shows how to build some helper classes to
easily pass error information from the server to the client through a
webservice layer.

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I use to show the error messages that I get in a try block.

try
{
...
}
catch (Exception ex)
{
... (ex.Message);
}

In a Windows App I use: Message.Show(ex.Message);

As the web service can be used in Windows apps or ASP.NET apps, what is the way to do that?

Regards,

Diego F.