Monday, January 7, 2013

Error logging tools

Elmah
     Overview extracted from the article
     As promised, here is my next article regarding another tool I find completely invaluable in my life as a developer,Elmah. Basically Elmah sites quietly on your site, logging any exceptions (Code based or Web Server, for example, 404) which occur to (in this example) a database.  It then provides a nice neat GUI front end to allow you to view the details of these errors, including stack traces. If you're anything like me, and are tired of conversations which go like this:
  • User: "Karl, the website crashed earlier"
  • Karl: "Oh right, what were you doing"
  • User: "I don't remember, I was just on it, can you fix it please"
  • Karl: "Well I could do with reproducing it...
You will be happy Elmah exists!

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