Special Edition Using SOAP

Handling SOAP Errors

SOAP provides the same error handling capability using the client with Visual C++ as it does for Visual Basic. The method used to access the data is slightly different, but will look familiar to anyone who has worked with Visual C++ in the past.

As part of the task of learning about error handling for Visual C++, I decided to create a clone of the Visual Basic example in Chapter 5, “Migrating an Application form DCOM to SOAP.” The DisplaySOAPFault() method shown here provides similar functionality to that example. (You can find the complete example in the \Appendix D\Throw Error directory of the Web site for this book at www.quepublishing.com.)

 void CThrowErrorDlg::DisplaySOAPFault(LPCTSTR pMessage) { HRESULT hr; // Result ...