For the last THREE WEEKS, I've been trying to get a WCF service stood up on a remote secure server, and access it from a Silverlight navigation application on another secure remote server. It's throwing an exception, and referring me to the inner exception. The problem is that this exception is only thrown whn I try to hit the service when it's deployed on a remote server (as opposed to running the service on my development machine), and the inner exception was not available to me. After some LONG pndering, I came up with a solution.
The exception reporting mechanism in Silverlight navigation apps is through a class called ErrorWindow. This class has a single constructor that accepts an Exception parameter. The problem is that it only shows the top-most exception, and doesn't iterate through all inner exceptions. My solution was to overload the constructor, like so:
public ErrorWindow(string message)
{
InitializeComponent();
ErrorTextBox.Text = message;
}
and then I wrote this method in a static class:
public static string GetTotalException(Exception ex)
{
StringBuilder result = new StringBuilder(ex.Message);
result.AppendFormat("{0}{1}", Environment.NewLine, ex.StackTrace);
if (ex.InnerException != null)
{
result.AppendFormat("{0}============{0}Inner exception: {1}",
Environment.NewLine,
GetTotalException(ex.InnerException));
}
return result.ToString();
}
Finally, I call it something like this:
string errorText = GetTotalException(e);
ErrorWindow window = new ErrorWindow(errorText);
This allowed me to copy/paste the entire exception chain from the displayed ErrorWindow in my silverlight application.
I still haven't found a resolution to connectivity issue, but now I'm better armed to help others to help me.
I've been paid as a programmer since 1982 with experience in Pascal, and C++ (both self-taught), and began writing Windows programs in 1991 using Visual C++ and MFC. In the 2nd half of 2007, I started writing C# Windows Forms and ASP.Net applications, and have since done WPF, Silverlight, WCF, web services, and Windows services.
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