How do you catch a thrown soap exception from a web service?

Question

I throw a few soap exceptions in my web service successfully. I would like to catch the exceptions and access the string and ClientFaultCode that are called with the exception.

Answer 1

You may want to catch the specific exceptions.

try
{
     service.StartGame();
}
catch(SoapHeaderException)
{
// soap fault in the header e.g. auth failed
}
catch(SoapException x)
{
// general soap fault  and details in x.Message
}
catch(WebException)
{
// e.g. internet is down
}
catch(Exception)
{
// handles everything else
}