Silverlight -> WCF -> Database -> problem

Question

I have some silverlight code that calls a WCF service which then uses the Entity Framework to access the database and return records.

Everything runs fine but ... wh

Answer 1

John Papa has a great article from MSDN Magazine Data Performance and Fault Strategies in Silverlight 3 that explains this issue and offers a solution. Due to browser limitations, error code 500s aren't routed properly. His solution modifies the outgoing HttpResponse Message back to a 200 for all Silverlight 500 responses.