Question

I’ve got a WCF service which swallows up exceptions thrown in called methods and passing them on to the client. This is fine for DEBUG mode, and I’ve got a feeling I turned this functionality on, but how do you turn it off?

Any help much appreciated.

Answer 1

Check the includeExceptionDetailInFaults attribute of the serviceDebug element in the web.config file for your service. Setting this attribute to “false” should prevent exception details from being returned to the client.

<behaviors>
  <serviceBehaviors>
    <behavior name="httpsBehavior">
      <serviceMetadata httpGetEnabled="false" httpsGetEnabled="true" />
      <serviceDebug includeExceptionDetailInFaults="false" />
    </behavior>
  </serviceBehaviors>
</behaviors>