Serializing Exceptions WCF + Silverlight
- by Bram
I have a WCF service I use to submit bugs for my project. Snippet of the data class:
Private _exception As Exception
<DataMember()> _
Public Property Exception As Exception
Get
Return _exception
End Get
Set(ByVal value As Exception)
_exception = value
End Set
End Property
I have a Silverlight app that uses the WCF service to send any bugs home if and when they occur. This is the error I'm testing with:
Dim i As Integer = 5
i = i / 0
The problem is SL is banging on with this message:
System.ServiceModel.CommunicationException was unhandled by user code
Message=There was an error while trying to serialize parameter :bug. The InnerException message was 'Type 'System.OverflowException' with data contract name 'OverflowException:http://schemas.datacontract.org/2004/07/System' is not expected. Add any types not known statically to the list of known types - for example, by using the KnownTypeAttribute attribute or by adding them to the list of known types passed to DataContractSerializer.'. Please see InnerException for more details.
Is there some trick to get a generic .NET Exception (any InnerException) to serialize properly? I'm not doing anything funky with the exception - it's just a plain 'ol exception
Thanks for any help.
