Guys,
I wrote a web service. In the web method i have reportingServices.Render() method. What kind of exceptions can i catch & how do I catch them. Please help me get going.
catch(SoapException e)
{
     Console.WriteLine(e.Detail()
}
Is this ok. Please give me clues. Thank you so much.

Hi,

as long as you keep inside the web method, you can handle any exception means that all which your application (web service can raise), basically all deriving from System.Exception. Key point in soap exceptions is that if your web service raises any exception, it is kind of converted or "marshalled" to SoapException so that client/usder can be informed about the
error.

So it means that if you handle exceptions at the client, you'd try to handle SoapException.

Hi,
Thanks, for the reply. When i say Console.writeline in the webmethod.,where is the exception shown. I copied this from a website. So, iam not really sure where is the exception raised. Is it ok to write Console.write in a webmethod?

 

Well, it would write to a Console when you'd debug this in VS.NET etc, but in normal production use you'd use some sort of logging system. For example log errors to a database or a log file on the server.

Could you refer me to a good website which explains more about this. Thank you so much.

Hello,

generally about web services
http://aspnet.4guysfromrolla.com/articles/100803-1.aspx

(One big free article serie by Scott Mitchell)

Here is a few articles about error handling in web services
http://west-wind.com/weblog/posts/1393.aspx
http://www.codeproject.com/aspnet/ASPNETExceptionHandling.asp