What is the best way to return errors from a WCF service in a RESTful way?

Question

Using WCF in a RESTful way seems great. I’m a big fan of the big guns like simplicity and flexibility, but I also love the way the Urls end up looking. What can I say, I’m a

Answer 1

With .net 4, throw a WebFaultException(T errorDetail, HttpResponseCodecode)

Here you set your response type to another object type, which makes sense, and also you set the ResponseCode that you want.

The errorDetail must be serializable

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/endpoint/archive/2010/01/21/error-handling-in-wcf-webhttp-services-with-webfaultexception.aspx