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If your client is written in programming language that don´t have exceptions.<br />
If you have a .NET client only, i don´t see any problems using exceptions.
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If your client is written in programming language that don´t have exceptions.
If you have a .NET client only, i don´t see any problems using exceptions.

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Can i throw a normal exception object from WCF to client? Or should it be converted to SOAP? If yes, can you please brief on the reason for the conversion?
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Can i throw a normal exception object from WCF to client? Or should it be converted to SOAP? If yes, can you please brief on the reason for the conversion?

Throwing exception from WCF to client

Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) is a tool used to implement and deploy a service-oriented architecture (SOA) to support distributed computing where services have remote consumers. It features a runtime and a set of APIs in the .NET Framework for building connected, service-oriented applications. Services typically have a WSDL interface (Web Services Description Language) that any WCF client can use to consume the service, regardless of which platform the service is hosted on. WCF implements many advanced Web services (WS) standards such as WS-Addressing, WS-ReliableMessaging, WS-Security, RSS Syndication Services, WS-Discovery, routing and better support for REST services.

The .NET Framework is not specific to any one programming language; rather, it includes a library of functions that allows developers to rapidly build applications. Several supported languages include C#, VB.NET, C++ or ASP.NET.