Exception handling question

[Michel]

Hi there,

I have an ASP.NET web site and service. The site calls methods from the
web-service.
Whenever a service call throws an exception, I'd like to get the exception
message.
However, at the client, the message contains the class name and stack trace
of the exception, and is encapsulated in a SoapException message, e.g.

....SoapException: ....MyException: The Actual Message at \n stack trace

The InnerException property is always null (even when throwing a
SoapException with embedded exception at the service).

How do I get to the exception message?

Any help appreciated,
Thanks,
Michel

 

[Jan Tielens]

Check out following article that handles this problem:
http://www.microsoft.com/belux/nl/msdn/community/columns/jtielens/soapexcept
ions.mspx

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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[Michel]

Hi Jan (ook Hollandse kaasboer toevallig),

I've briefly read the article and related articles.
This is what I need.

Thanks a lot,
Michel

 

[Jan Tielens]

Nope, Belgian .NET guy

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Jan Tielens
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