Elmah and ASP.NET MVC 3

Question

What are the steps required to set up elmah on an ASP.NET MVC 3 application?

1. nuget elmah
2. customize elmah (storage, etc)
3. handle HandleError

Is that all? Is step 3 still necessary after nuget?

Answer 1

Taken from : HOW TO SETUP ELMAH.MVC WITH ASP.NET MVC 4 ?

What is Elmah ?

ELMAH is an open source project whose purpose is to log and report unhandled exceptions in ASP.NET web applications.

Why to use Elmah ?

ELMAH serves as an unobtrusive interceptor of unhandled ASP.NET exceptions, those usually manifesting with the ASP.NET yellow screen of death.

So now we know what and why to use Elmah, Lets quickly get started on how to use Elmah with your ASP.NET MVC project.

Step 1: Right click on your solution and select the "Manage Nuget Packages" option

Step 2: In the Nuget Package manager search for "Elmah" and install the Elmah.MVC nuget extension. The Nuget Package manager will download and add the required dlls and modify the web.config's <appSetting> for Elmah to work.

Step 3: That's it !! Your Elmah is now ready to test. I have generated a 404 to test if my Elmah works, ELMAH can be accessed by this url : http://yourapp.com/elmah.

Hope this helps :)

Further Reading :

• Elmah on code.google.com
• Elmah.MVC 2.0.2 on Nuget
• Elmah.MVC on GitHub