Displaying error messages

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From: Coffee guy (Coffeeguy_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 09/04/04 

Date: Sat, 4 Sep 2004 11:05:02 -0700

I'm new to .NET and web development so please forgive. What is the best way
to display an error message, particularly during development. For example I
handle an exception, let's say it's an oledb error thrown because a file does
not exist. I want to inform the user (me) that I just caught this exception.

What's the best way to do this? Do I add scripting to write something to
the browser? How to do this in C#?

Or do I create a blank webform and put the text on it? Seems heavy-handed.

Or how can I dynamically create a popup html page that says what it says
then can be dismissed?

Easy stuff I know but I'm not finding it in the docs, presumeably b/c I
don't know what keywords to search for yet (MessageBox() doesn't do it :-)

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