Can I get a WCF service to generate SoapExceptions instead of FaultExceptions? - wcf

Is there a way to get a WCF service which needs to maintain backward compatibility with asmx clients to serialize exceptions as SoapExceptions rather than FaultException or FaultException?
I have some service clients that cannot be upgraded, but we're standardizing all our services to WCF... We've got the services to mimic the asmx soap/xml format, but I can't figure out how to alter WCF's fault behaviour.

WCF does not generate either SoapException or FaultException. It generates SOAP faults. The client may translate the faults into SoapException or FaultException.
If the client is an old-style ASMX client, then it will throw a SoapException when it receives a fault. A WCF client will throw a FaultException when it receives the fault.
The bottom line is that you shouldn't have to change anything.

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