introducing-exception-handling-in-reporting-services.md

title	Introduction to exception management in Reporting Services
description	Learn how to handle exceptions thrown by the Report Server Web service so you can return useful information to users when errors occur.
ms.date	09/25/2024
ms.service	reporting-services
ms.subservice	report-server-web-service
ms.topic	reference
ms.custom	updatefrequency5
helpviewer_keywords	Web service [Reporting Services], exception handling errors [Reporting Services] exceptions [Reporting Services] Report Server Web service, exception handling XML Web service [Reporting Services], exception handling

Introduction to exception management in Reporting Services

If your [!INCLUDEssRSnoversion] application sends a request to the Report Server Web service that the service is unable to process, the service returns a SOAP exception to the client. Handling exceptions thrown by the Report Server Web service is an important part of the applications that you develop because you can return useful information to users when errors occur.

This section contains specific information about handling exceptions, preventing user input that isn't valid, and returning meaningful error information to users. For general information about exception handling, see "Handling and Throwing Exceptions" in the [!INCLUDEmsCoName] [!INCLUDEdnprdnshort] SDK documentation.

In this section

Article	Description
Handle exceptions in Reporting Services	Provides an overview of exceptions in [!INCLUDEssRSnoversion] and the role of SOAP in returning errors from a Web service.
Best practices for Reporting Services exception management	Provides recommendations on how to handle exceptions in [!INCLUDEssRSnoversion].
Reporting Services SoapException class	Describes the SoapException class in [!INCLUDEssRSnoversion].

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