Exceptions with Web Services

[m1k3l]

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?

[PT Exorcist]

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

[m1k3l]

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

[Cander]

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.

[m1k3l]

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.