dotnet general: There are many different ways that you could approach this problem.

Just like any other function out there, you could create a return value that
specified whether or not a procedure or function successfully completed.

You could simply send back an empty resultset instead of actual data.

And so forth.


HTH

Rick Sawtell
MCT, MCSD, MCDBA




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hi,
if my webmethod fails (eg database server is down) how do i send this
message back to the caller of the web method.
thanx

Sure, Raise a SOAP exception.

See this article
http://www.developer.com/net/csharp/article.php/10918_3088231_1

--- Nick

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