Force wcf odata service to send Success status code 200 - asp.net

I am currently using a wcf odata web service with entity framework. My code returns an internal server error (500) while performing post operation from edmx file. But the data gets posted because I am performing insert/update operation using queries later in code.
I want to force return a success status code 200 and skip this "500 status code (internal server error). An error occurred while processing this request" since my functionality works well.
How can I achieve this? Any suggestion?

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If my Http Send adaptor receives an http 500 I want to retry. If it returns a 400 I don't want it to retry. Instead I want to subscribe to the message and email it somewhere.
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When a message is received and it fails validation in XMLReceive pipeline, the message is redirected to our "exception portal" as expected.
The problem is however that the consumer of the WCF service never get's a fault, so the Connection gets a timeout after a while, which is very confusing for the consumer.
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creating an Orchestration that does the validation (instead of doing it on the pipeline), and making sure to send a response int he orchestration as well as routing failures to your portal
creating a custom component that validates the message (perhaps by calling the XML Validation pipeline in a try block and catching the exception without rethrowing it); on error it sends the message to your portal, and replaces pInMsg with something sensible to send back to the partner.
having your portal receive location be a request response port (perhaps, again, with an orchestration behind it), and route the response back to the WCF two way port. This way is more involved, and to be honest I'm not entirely sure what a working implementation would look like here, but it may be possible.
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ASP.NET MVC3 Ajax error response vs HTTP 4XX

I have an asp.net MVC3 application that makes Ajax calls to the server on various occassion. We have a debate in our team on how to handle error response:
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Option 2: Use a header/payload concept using JSON, with a structure similar to
response:
success: true
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....
payload: <actual response>
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How do you communicate an error to the web service consumer ?
For example, my web service has a function to insert employee into db.Suppose while inserting the data , the database gave an error,what should be the best way to inform the user about the error.
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Unlike SOAP, REST web services do not have a convention for returning errors but the simplest is to use the ones everybody understands.
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