Exceptions with Web Services

I have a web service that I want to throw some custom exceptions (lets say MyCustomException) and have the client be able to catch the exception in a Try...Catch block.

But the problem is the Client does not have a reference to MyCustomException so as such I cannot catch it, is there anyway around this?

he can send a string saying "EXCEPTION"+MESSAGE and in the client u put a part that if says EXPCEPTION he will throw the exception..dont know if i explained well lol

Actually I have a MyCustomException class at the web service side that inherits from the ApplicationException class.

I'm doing a (on the web service):


if ('something that will be an error) then
Throw New MyCustomException("Some message')
end if

and on the client side i want to do a:

Try
'Whatever
Catch ex as MyCustomException
'do something here
Catch e as Exception
'do something here for something unexpected
End Try


i'm not sure if this is the way to do it. I'm new to this exception thingy

Isn't the Exception class included with your Web service proxy class? I dont see why what you have shouldnt work if so.
Unless I dont quite understand what you mean.:confused:

that's wat i'm scratching my head over also. I tried to catch the custom exception but it's like the class is not even there although i used the full name of the class. Another class (not an exception) I can see.