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[Peter Morris [Droopy eyes software]]

Hi all

My website is consuming a webservice. If I trap exceptions from the
webservice what is the recommended way of displaying this error message to
the user?

Same for confirmation messages such as "Your request is being processed,
please check your mail" etc?

Thanks

Pete

 

[Mark Rae]

My website is consuming a webservice. If I trap exceptions from the
webservice what is the recommended way of displaying this error message to
the user?

Same for confirmation messages such as "Your request is being processed,
please check your mail" etc?

The two most popular methods for informing users that "things are happening"
are:

1) popping a JavaScript alert()

2) setting the text property of a label, usually with a different font
colour to distinguish it from the rest of the page

I favour the first, personally...

 

[Peter Morris [Droopy eyes software]]

Hi Mark

Okay, thanks. I just thought there would be a way of inserting a message
into the ValidationSummary control without having to resort to writing my
own validator class (as I have done in the past).

Thanks!

Pete