November 2007
Intermediate to advanced
928 pages
26h 9m
English
Programmers using a .NET language are comfortable with errors being reported by exceptions. Component Object Model (COM) and Win32 API programmers from yesteryear are comfortable with HRESULTs and response code values coming back from their calls. As you have seen in this chapter, Exchange Web Services programmers have to contend with a mixture of response values (response codes) and exceptions (SOAP faults). So now that you are here, is there anything that you can do to unify these two error-reporting mechanisms? That all depends on how much of an investment you want to put into extending the auto-generated proxy classes. For instance, if you are writing a simple component that needs to make one call using Exchange Web ...