Get CRM Webservice Soap Exception in detail

This sample to helps to give you a bit more information when you hit a Soap Error when connecting to the CRM Web services.

I think its a great way to bubble up that bit more information about what caused the error to the developer (and any error logging you may be doing as well) & help you work out what has happened, so thought I would share it:

   1:  try

   2:  {

   3:   

   4:      //do something here that tries to use the CRM Webservice

   5:   

   6:  }

   7:   

   8:  catch (SoapException ex)

   9:  {

  10:   

  11:      string errorMessage = ex.Message;

  12:   

  13:      if (ex.Detail != null)

  14:      {

  15:   

  16:          // If there is a InnerText message then we will overwrite with this instead. It can be

  17:   

  18:          // more helpful to explain the error.

  19:   

  20:          errorMessage = ((System.Xml.XmlElement)ex.Detail).InnerText;

  21:   

  22:      }

  23:   

  24:      throw new Exception("Something went wrong when communication with the Web Service. Error: " + errorMessage);

  25:   

  26:  }