Silverlight Exceptions Via the ErrorWindow

For the last THREE WEEKS, I've been trying to get a WCF service stood up on a remote secure server, and access it from a Silverlight navigation application on another secure remote server. It's throwing an exception, and referring me to the inner exception. The problem is that this exception is only thrown whn I try to hit the service when it's deployed on a remote server (as opposed to running the service on my development machine), and the inner exception was not available to me. After some LONG pndering, I came up with a solution.

The exception reporting mechanism in Silverlight navigation apps is through a class called ErrorWindow. This class has a single constructor that accepts an Exception parameter. The problem is that it only shows the top-most exception, and doesn't iterate through all inner exceptions. My solution was to overload the constructor, like so:

public ErrorWindow(string message)
{
    InitializeComponent();
    ErrorTextBox.Text = message;
}

and then I wrote this method in a static class:

//--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
public static string GetTotalException(Exception ex)
{
    StringBuilder result = new StringBuilder(ex.Message);
    result.AppendFormat("{0}{1}", Environment.NewLine, ex.StackTrace);
    if (ex.InnerException != null)
    {
        result.AppendFormat("{0}============{0}Inner exception: {1}", 
                            Environment.NewLine, 
                            GetTotalException(ex.InnerException));
    }
    return result.ToString();
}

Finally, I call it something like this:

string errorText = GetTotalException(e);
ErrorWindow window = new ErrorWindow(errorText);

This allowed me to copy/paste the entire exception chain from the displayed ErrorWindow in my silverlight application.

I still haven't found a resolution to connectivity issue, but now I'm better armed to help others to help me.