Designing Service Interfaces For Silverlight Clients

When designing a service interfaces based on WCF you might be considering indicating service errors via service faults. By and large that might be a good choice but in the case of Silverlight clients consuming that service you may want to read Eugene's blog first. Eugene describes very detailed the technical background for why a Silverlight client running in a web browser may not be able to see the fault with all details. He also provide a few suggestions for how to get around that limitation - which is not Silverlight's fault! - including code examples. In some cases have a separate set of services for Silverlight client's might be an option worth exploring as well. That way you can give service clients, which are not hampered by browser's 'filtering', the best possible experience.