How to access SOAP 1.1 fault detail from WCF client (no fault contract)

Question

I\'m accessing a SOAP 1.1 web service, and it\'s returning a fault. The web service does not define any fault contract in the WSDL as far as I can see. My WCF client maps

Answer 1

As detailed here: http://www.theruntime.com/blogs/jacob/archive/2008/01/28/getting-at-the-details.aspx

you can use this workaround to obtain the details:

} catch (FaultException soapEx)
{    
    MessageFault mf = soapEx.CreateMessageFault();    
    if (mf.HasDetail)
    {    
        XmlDictionaryReader reader = mf.GetReaderAtDetailContents();    
        ...    
    }    
}