How can I get output from a non-UI test to the Test Results UI?

My scenario is this, currently contained in one coded Web Test:

1) post to an ISAPI DLL, parse out fields from response

2) insert step 1 parsed-info into DB, start a windows service, wait for it to finish

After #2 finishes, I'd like to have the resultant (multi-line) string displayed in the Test Results UI. In order to accomplish that, I throw a generic Exception (at the end of the Web Test) that has my string in it, which gets shown in the UI like I want, but also fails the test.Note that this breaks the scenario where there's a thrid step that uses info from step #2, since it would be skipped when the exception is thrown.

Question: Can I get my (non-Web Test) result-string into the UI without failing the test?

NOTE: It would probably make more sense to make this as an Ordered Test that contains a Web Test for #1, and a Unit Test for #2. But when I do that my 'WebTestPlugin' class isn't persisted across each test, it gets re-instantiated. So maybe my question should really be 'how can I pass info from a Web Test to an Unit Test?'

Thanks in advance,

m

[1210 byte] By [mikul] at [2007-12-20]