Today I got some “unhelpful” exception while upgrading one of the project from CRM 4 to 2011. And the structure of the project is changed from using direct communication from website to CRM, now it utilize WCF in between.

I’ve been doing WCF for about 2 year, but now I just found out that WCF tracing can be this useful. So, this is what happened:

No clear explanation right?

Then I decided to trace and add this in web.config of WCF:

<system.diagnostics><sources>  <source name="System.ServiceModel" switchValue="Information, ActivityTracing" propagateActivity="true"><listeners>  <add name="traceListener" type="System.Diagnostics.XmlWriterTraceListener" initializeData= "c:\traces.svclog" /></listeners>  </source></sources>  </system.diagnostics>

Do the problematic process again, and it generates:

I opened it, skim through the log and found this:

Double click that one, something goes wrong..

Select that error:

Gotcha! Now I have better clue on what I should fix..