http://www.adammokan.com ramblings of a software developer, mad scientist, geek, and father Tue, 22 Nov 2011 19:11:17 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.adammokan.com/2009/12/02/elmah-awesome/ http://www.adammokan.com/2009/12/02/elmah-awesome/#comments Wed, 02 Dec 2009 07:00:00 +0000 adam.mokan http://www.adammokan.com/2009/12/02/elmah-awesome/ So, I'm a bit late to the game on this. But ELMAH (Error Logging Modules and Handlers) is awesome.
Basically just drop the dll in your bin folder on your project and adjust your web.config. It handles your error handling and logging automatically. Very slick.
I got it in place today on a couple apps (ASP.NET webforms and ASP.NET MVC 2) and it writes to a SQL database (one of many options for logging).
But, as with most things I mess with, its not enough (and not its own fault). I have an internal system already in place for tracking and managing our applications. I setup the ELMAH table in the same database as my tracking app and want to have a way to tie them together. So, now I am modifying the Error.cs class in the Elmah source to allow me to put the ApplicationID in the web.config so I can query the Elmah error table in relation to my existing application metrics.
I highly recommend checking this little utility out if you're doing .NET development.

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