.NET: How to convert Exception to string?

Question

When an exception is thrown (while debugging in the IDE), i have the opportunity to view details of the exception:

Answer 1

Each left-side name is property in the Exception. If you want to display Message field, you can do

return ex.Message;

Pretty simple. Likewise, the StackTrace can be displayed as below link.

A complete example of StackTrace: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.exception.stacktrace.aspx

and Exception class: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.exception.aspx