When you create messages, you specify the message text and message code, and you can include information on the message severity, cause, and user action. After you create messages, you can implement the code to handle exceptions. When you implement the code to handle the exception, you pass the message as an argument to the exception handing method.

Create design-time messages to handle design-time exceptions, such as service exceptions. Create run-time messages to handle run-time exceptions.

To create messages, perform the following steps: