Exception handling in WCF using SOAP Fault - DotNetLogix

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Exception handling in WCF using SOAP Fault

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dpeterson

8/3/2011 6:17:21 PM

What is the advantage to using a FaultException? Does the WCF runtime not have any mechanism in place to notify the client should a normal exception occur?
It seems odd that you would have to wrap all exceptions in FaultExceptions, losing the stack-trace and other important bits of information available in the exception object.

vijayst

8/5/2011 11:38:09 AM

My understanding is that FaultException will have an InnerException property that will expose the actual exception that occurred within a service.

vijayst

8/5/2011 11:35:46 AM

I am not clear about FaultCode. You have used FaultCode as "sender". Is it just a application specific classification of the fault? Or is it some kind of identifier that is assigned?