Undocumented WCSF Feature: Global Exception Handling

There has been some traffic on the Web Client Software Factory discussion boards recently about exception handling and logging. People are asking how to add a global exception handler to their applciations. Rather than point folks at the discussions, I have consolidated the main points from the discussions here to explain that this is a free, undocumented feature of the WCSF. If you have the WCSF installed and create a new “Web Client Solution”, you get exception handling and logging. This is implemented in a simple HttpModule in the Composite Web Application Block. This class leverages Enterprise Library’s Exception Handling and Logging Application Blocks. Using the web.config file for the web site and the EntLib configuration tool, you can...(read more)

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