I have an ASP.NET C# 3.5 web application that consumes another ASP.NET web service as a web reference. The web service is built into some proprietary hardware device. The problem is that that device has been having troubles and not alwasy accessible. My web application is suffering brcause of it, as it takes over a minute to load. It does load, but not acceptable.
The service is instantiated in a try catch block and no exception is being throw, but the output windows displays:
A first chance exception of type ‘System.Net.WebException’ occurred in System.dll
I know there is a better way to handle this, but I am drawing blanks.
Any help is appreciated.
UPDATE: Still looking for an answer on how to handle webservices that become unavailable without affecting website.
After tearing it apart, I found the exception. It is a standard “Unable to connect” exception. The problem is now the timeout, I have tried setting the asyncTimeout to 5000 in the web.config under the System.Web -> Pages properties. It is still taking aroung 20 seconds to throw the exception. Any ideas?
Simple solution, poll the service using JavaScript after page load.