WCF Data Service - How To Diagnose Request Error?

Question

I have an application which will use WCF to serve up various chunks of data to clients. However, due to the size of some of the sets of data that will be returned (and that

Answer 1

It sounds like you are only seeing the generic "Response Error" message. To see the details of that message you need to modify the behavior to "includeExceptionDetailInFaults".

You can change the behavior in your config file.

<services>
    <service name="DataServiceHost"
             behaviorConfiguration="DataServiceBehavior">
        <endpoint name="DataServiceHost"
                  address=""
                  binding="webHttpBinding"
                  contract="System.Data.Services.IRequestHandler" />

    </service>
</services>
<behaviors>
    <serviceBehaviors>
        <behavior name="DataServiceBehavior">
            <serviceDebug includeExceptionDetailInFaults="true"/>
        </behavior>
    </serviceBehaviors>
</behaviors>