WCF Exception Handling

Question

If an exception occurs in my WCF service, what is the best way to communicate that error to the client?

Should I log it on the service and rethrow a soap exception?

Answer 1

An exception is supposed to be an exceptional event, so you shouldn't worry about nice messages. If exceptions only occur when you have a bug, just rethrow it as a generic exception and log it. Should not be a problem.

However, when the exceptions occur as part of your normal process, returning nice messages would be a good idea.