ELMAH error logging for Windows Service

Question

We are using ELMAH to log the web application exception which works great!. Also we want to know how to customize ELMAH to log the windows service exception.

I am not interested in using another application for logging only windows service exception.

Any help would be appreciated.

Answer 1

I did this previously. I found out the code to use by digging though the source code starting from the ErrorSignal.FromCurrentContext().Raise(ex); method.

This currently only logs to the Database (as thats all i needed) but with a little bit more investigation you could write a wrapper method that logs to whatever you have set-up in the config file.

try
{

Elmah.SqlErrorLog ErrorLog = new Elmah.SqlErrorLog(ConfigurationManager.ConnectionStrings["Default"].ConnectionString);

ErrorLog.ApplicationName = "AppName";

ErrorLog.Log(new Elmah.Error(new Exception("example")));

}
catch (Exception ex)
{
    //catch sql error
}

In my service I made the ErrorLog variable a public singleton object that was easily accessed from the service project.