Thomas Ardal

Developing extensions for Visual Studio has been somewhat hard previously, but it seems like the VS team is really trying to improve and simplify things. I've recently experimented with creating a custom debug visualizer for showing exceptions and in this post, I'll share some of the experiences I have gained. ...

Visual Studio is probably the tool I use most throughout my week. It's such a versatile tool with lots of features. The downside of the extent of buttons and options is that it offers some features that you didn't even know about it. I constantly discover new features, some years ...

While developing the "new" canonical check feature for elmah.io Uptime Monitoring, I had to parse a website from C# and inspect the DOM. I have been using Html Agility Pack in the past so this was an obvious choice. I also looked at what happened in the space and ...

This is the third and final post (for now) in the series about developing email templates with MJML and deploying them to AWS. In the previous post, we developed a Gulp script to automatically build HTML from the MJML file and insert it in a template file for AWS. In ...

This is the second post in the series about building email templates with MJML and deploying them on AWS. In the previous post, we learned about MJML and Handlebars.js for creating cross-browser email templates with dynamic content. In this post, I will show you how you can script the ...

In this series, I'll share how we have developed elmah.io's email templates currently sent out using Amazon Web Services (AWS). This first post will introduce template development using MJML and Handlebars.js. In the following posts, I'll explain the process of building them with Gulp on Azure DevOps and ...

I'm constantly tweaking the uniqueness detection on elmah.io. It's the feature that will identify if an error has been logged previously which will trigger a range of other features like notifications. A while back, I wanted to add support for identifying GUIDs as part of the URL and got ...

Part of implementing an error monitoring platform like elmah.io is dealing with the IP addresses of the clients generating errors. In this post, I'll show you parts of how we have implemented this in ASP.NET Core, to make sure that different hosting scenarios still produce the correct IP ...

Someone asked me about the possibility of turning on a light on new errors logged to elmah.io the other day. While we offer dashboards to put on a big screen in the office, I hadn't thought much about turning physical things on and off on errors. This sounded like ...