Question

What would be the most mainstream way to report errors from a Azure Service to a Windows Phone 7 application via basicHttpBinding? Since Silverlight uses the Async pattern i can’t use try catch and when a exception happens on the service side the client then throws a exception.

Answer 1

have a look here:Answer on StackOverflow.com

The quick and dirty approach is to do the following:

<serviceBehaviors>
    <behavior name="EmployeeManager_Behavior">
       <serviceDebug includeExceptionDetailInFaults="true"/>
    </behavior>
 </serviceBehaviors> 

This will simply take the server-side error and provide its details to the client.

A nicer approach is to use the IErrorHandler interface. This allows WCF errors to be handled on the server and reported back to the client in a more controlled way.

You can find out more about this approach in the MSDN Documentation for IErrorHandler.